suffocate英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

动词 v.

To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body. ergative

— Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body. ergative

— He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation. ergative,figuratively

— I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
To destroy; to extinguish. transitive

— to suffocate fire

形容词 adj.

Suffocated, choked. obsolete
Smothered, overwhelmed. obsolete

— This chaos, when degree is suffocate, follows the choking

词形变化

suffocates present,singular,third-person suffocating participle,present suffocated participle,past suffocated past more suffocate comparative most suffocate superlative

词汇关系

近义词

smother

衍生词

smothercate suffocater suffocation suffocative suffocator unsuffocate

词源

词源 1

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.

词源 2

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.