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étouffer verbe | choke [choked, choking, chokes]◼◼◼(prevent someone from breathing by strangling them) stifle [stifled, stifling, stifles]◼◼◼(to make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing) stifle [stifled, stifling, stifles]◼◼◼(to make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium) stifle [stifled, stifling, stifles]◼◼◼(to prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat) suffocate [suffocated, suffocating, suffocates]◼◼◼((transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body) smother [smothered, smothering, smothers]◼◼◼(to suffocate) muffle [muffled, muffling, muffles]◼◼◻(To mute or deaden) swelter [sweltered, sweltering, swelters]◼◻◻(To suffer terribly from intense heat) stew [stewed, stewing, stews]◼◻◻(to suffer under hot conditions) shill(to put under cover, to sheal) |
étouffer dans l'œuf verbe | nip in the bud◼◼◼(to prevent at an early stage) |
s'étouffer verbe | choke [choked, choking, chokes]◼◼◼(be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe) |
s’étouffer verbe | choke down(to swallow with difficulty) |