asphyxiate
英[əs'fɪksieɪt]
美[əs'fɪksieɪt]
- v. (使)窒息
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详细释义
Verb:
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deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;
"Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"
"The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
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impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of;
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
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be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen;
"The child suffocated under the pillow"
双语例句
- 1. We must trace the source of these noxious gases before they asphyxiate us.
- 在我们被这些有毒气体窒息之前,必须查出其来源.
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