suffocate

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• /ˈsʌfəkeɪt/
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• /ˈsʌfəkət/
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The adjective is first attested in the 1420s, the verb in 1526; from Middle English suffocat(e) (“deprived of air, suffocated”), borrowed from Latin suffōcātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin suffōcō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from sub- (“under, up to”) + fōx (“throat”, oblique stem in fōc-). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

193 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: затыха́цца (zatyxácca) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Belarusian: зато́хнуцца (zatóxnucca) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Belarusian: затхну́цца (zatxnúcca) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Bulgarian: задуша́вам се (zadušávam se) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Bulgarian: задуша́ се (zadušá se) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Bulgarian: задъ́хвам се (zadǎ́hvam se) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Bulgarian: задъ́хам се (zadǎ́ham se) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Catalan: ofegar sufocar — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Cebuano: lumos — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 窒息 (zhìxī) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Czech: dusit se — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Czech: udusit se — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Danish: kvæles — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Esperanto: sufokiĝi — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Faroese: kódna — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Finnish: tukehtua — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• French: suffoquer — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Galician: abafar — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Galician: sufocar — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Galician: atafegar — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• German: ersticken — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Hebrew: נחנק — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Higaonon: nalumos — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Hungarian: fuldoklik — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Hungarian: fullad — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Icelandic: kafna — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Japanese: 窒息する (chissoku suru) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Korean: 질식하다 (jilsikhada) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Latin: suffōcor — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Lithuanian: uždusti — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Lombard: soffegà — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Lombard: sofegar — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Lombard: stofegar — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Macedonian: се гуши (se guši) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Macedonian: се души (se duši) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Norwegian: kjøvast — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Norwegian Bokmål: kveles — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Persian: خفه شدن (xafe šodan) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Polish: dusić się — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Polish: udusić się — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Portuguese: sufocar — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Quechua: hiq'ipay — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Russian: задыха́ться (zadyxátʹsja) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Russian: задохну́ться (zadoxnútʹsja) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Serbo-Croatian: угуши́вати се — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Serbo-Croatian: угу́шити се — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Serbo-Croatian: ugušívati se — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Serbo-Croatian: ugúšiti se — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Slovak: dusiť sa — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Slovak: udusiť sa — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Slovene: dušiti se — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Slovene: zadušiti se — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Spanish: sofocarse — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Swedish: kvävas — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Tày: bắt — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Tày: bỉ — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Tày: ngằn — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Tày: pư — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Ukrainian: задиха́тися (zadyxátysja) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Ukrainian: задихну́тися (zadyxnútysja) — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Vietnamese: ngạt — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Vietnamese: ngạt thở — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Vietnamese: ngộp — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Vietnamese: ngộp thở — (intransitive) to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• Arabic: اِخْتَنَقَ (iḵtanaqa) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Arabic: انخنق (anḵanag) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Belarusian: затыха́цца (zatyxácca) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Belarusian: зато́хнуцца (zatóxnucca) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Belarusian: затхну́цца (zatxnúcca) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Bulgarian: задушавам се (zadušavam se) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Catalan: ofegar-se — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Czech: dusit se — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Czech: udusit se — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Danish: kvæles — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Finnish: tukehtua — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• French: suffoquer — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Galician: afogar — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• German: ersticken — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Hebrew: נחנק — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Hungarian: megfullad — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Lithuanian: uždusti — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Lombard: sofegar — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Lombard: stofegar — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Portuguese: sufocar — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Russian: задыха́ться (zadyxátʹsja) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Russian: задохну́ться (zadoxnútʹsja) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Spanish: sofocarse — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Swedish: kvävas — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Ukrainian: задиха́тися (zadyxátysja) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Ukrainian: задихну́тися (zadyxnútysja) — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Venetan: sofegar — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Vietnamese: chết ngạt — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Vietnamese: chết ngộp — (intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• Arabic: خَنَقَ (ḵanaqa) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Arabic: خَنَق (ḵanag) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Azerbaijani: boğmaq — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Belarusian: душы́ць (dušýcʹ) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Belarusian: задушы́ць (zadušýcʹ) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Belarusian: прыдушы́ць (prydušýcʹ) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Belarusian: удушы́ць (udušýcʹ) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Bulgarian: задуша́вам (zadušávam) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Bulgarian: задуша́ (zadušá) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Bulgarian: уду́швам (udúšvam) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Carpathian Rusyn: подусити (podusyty) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Cebuano: lumos — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Chinese Mandarin: 使窒息 (shǐ zhìxī) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Czech: dusit — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Czech: udusit — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Czech: zadusit — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Danish: kvæle — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Esperanto: sufoki — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Finnish: tukehduttaa — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• French: étouffer — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Galician: abafar — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Galician: sufocar — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Galician: atafegar — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• German: ersticken — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• German: würgen — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐍈𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (afƕapjan) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Hebrew: חנק — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Irish: plúch — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Japanese: 窒息させる (chissoku saseru) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Kabuverdianu: bafa — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Korean: 질식시키다 (jilsiksikida) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Ladino: atabafar — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Latin: suffōcō — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Lithuanian: uždusinti — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Lombard: sofegar — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Lombard: stofegar — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Macedonian: задушува (zadušuva) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Macedonian: задуши (zaduši) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Macedonian: гуши (guši) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Macedonian: души (duši) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Norwegian: kjøva — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Polish: dusić — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Polish: udusić — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Portuguese: sufocar — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Russian: души́ть (dušítʹ) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Russian: задуши́ть (zadušítʹ) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Russian: удуши́ть (udušítʹ) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Serbo-Croatian: угуши́вати — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Serbo-Croatian: угу́шити — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Serbo-Croatian: ugušívati — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Serbo-Croatian: ugúšiti — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Slovak: dusiť — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Slovak: udusiť — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Slovak: zadusiť — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Slovak: Slovak podusiť — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Slovene: dušiti — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Slovene: zadušiti se — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Lower Sorbian: póddušyś — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Lower Sorbian: zadušyś — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Upper Sorbian: podusyć — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Upper Sorbian: dodusyć — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Upper Sorbian: dusyć — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Spanish: sofocar — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Swedish: kväva — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Ukrainian: души́ти (dušýty) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Ukrainian: задуши́ти (zadušýty) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Ukrainian: удуши́ти (udušýty) — (transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
• Azerbaijani: boğmaq — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Belarusian: душы́ць (dušýcʹ) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Belarusian: задушы́ць (zadušýcʹ) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Belarusian: прыдушы́ць (prydušýcʹ) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Belarusian: удушы́ць (udušýcʹ) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Bulgarian: задуша́вам (zadušávam) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Bulgarian: задуша́ (zadušá) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Bulgarian: уду́швам (udúšvam) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Catalan: ofegar — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Czech: dusit — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Czech: udusit — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Czech: zadusit — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Danish: kvæle — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Finnish: tukehduttaa — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Galician: afogar — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Galician: esganar — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• German: ersticken — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Hebrew: חנק — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Hungarian: megfojt — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Irish: plúch — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Lombard: sofegar — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Lombard: stofegar — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Polish: dusić — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Portuguese: sufocar — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Russian: души́ть (dušítʹ) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Russian: задуши́ть (zadušítʹ) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Russian: удуши́ть (udušítʹ) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Spanish: sofocar — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Swedish: kväva — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Ottoman Turkish: بوغمق (boğmak) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Ukrainian: души́ти (dušýty) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Ukrainian: задуши́ти (zadušýty) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake
• Ukrainian: удуши́ти (udušýty) — (transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake