suffocate
意味
- …を窒息死させる
- …を息苦しくさせる
- (空気を断って)〈火〉を消す
- …の発達を妨げる
- 窒息死する
- 息が詰まる,あえぐ
例文
I thought I was going to suffocate on the crowded train.
満員電車の中は息が詰まりそうだった。
He suffocated, smothered in smoke.
彼は煙に巻かれて窒息した。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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.