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 Translation for 'to suffocate' from English to French
VERB   to suffocate | suffocated | suffocated
suffocating | suffocates
SYNO to asphyxiate | to choke | to gag | ...
étoufferto suffocate
s'asphyxierto suffocate
méd.
succomber à l'asphyxie
to suffocate
suffoquer (qn./qc.)to suffocate (sb./sth.)
asphyxier qn.to suffocate sb.
étouffer qn.to suffocate sb.
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Usage Examples English
  • S. to suffocate Russia.
  • This usually involves a person being connected and strangled by a homemade device that is tight enough to give them pleasure but not tight enough to suffocate them to death.
  • General Rochambeau developed a rudimentary method in 1803, during the Haitian Revolution, filling ships' cargo holds with sulfur dioxide to suffocate prisoners of war.
  • When enemies attempted to dig tunnels under walls for mining or entry into the city, the defenders used large bellows to pump smoke into the tunnels in order to suffocate the intruders.
  • In "Moonraker" (1979), a reticulated python tries to suffocate James Bond (Roger Moore), but Bond kills the snake with a hypodermic pen.

  • Katuntu was described by Yoweri Museveni as a poisonous mushroom who was out to suffocate government programmes as he addressed a rally at Busesa in Bugweri county.
  • In "Sub-Mariner" #36 (April 1971), Namor married Dorma — and discovered that the woman that he married was actually his disguised enemy Llyra, who murdered the real Dorma by bringing the water-breathing bride to the surface and causing her to suffocate in the open air.
  • The caves are closed to the public, and remain closed after a worker tried to enter the cave to steal some of the selenite, only to suffocate and die in the cave's humid and inhospitable atmosphere.
  • After the match, Funk jumped Flair from behind and tried to suffocate Flair by putting a plastic bag over his head.
  • Modern cats use a throat clamp, a bite positioned around the upper section of the throat, to suffocate the prey by compressing the windpipe.

  • He was a victim of "bagging", that is use of a plastic bag to suffocate interviewee's to extract a confession.
  • This causes the cells to suffocate from lack of oxygen.
  • The emperor sent his Rajpoot general Rai Tulsidas with reinforcements into the mountains to suffocate the revolt and liberate the mountain.
  • Rejecting the notion, Halpern decides that Johnson is an imminent threat and defends herself by planting potent explosives around the spacecraft and habitat, and then attempts to suffocate Johnson by manipulating the habitat's life-support system.
  • There is a hypoxic zone covers the coasts of Oregon and Washington Organisms that cannot relocate have been found to suffocate, leaving them unable to be used by fishermen.

  • Suspecting Nanny intends to suffocate Joey, Pen asks her what happened earlier when Joey emerged from the bathroom soaking wet.
  • One version claims that she gave the task of killing him to one of his slave concubines, or "jawari", to suffocate him with cushions.
  • This indigenous uprising at the end of the 18th century was the largest geographically and with the most support. It took the affected viceroyalties two years to suffocate it.
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