zadusit — meaning in English

English meaning

• choke verb To be unable to breathe because something is blocking the throat or windpipe.
• stifle verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
• suffocate verb To die, or cause someone to die, from lack of oxygen.

Senses

zadusit is used for these senses in English:

• choke (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
• stifle (transitive, also, figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
• stifle (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.

choke — full definition

1. verb To be unable to breathe because something is blocking the throat or windpipe.
2. verb To squeeze someone's throat so they cannot breathe; to strangle.
3. verb To perform badly under pressure at a crucial moment, especially when close to winning.
4. noun A valve that adjusts the fuel-air mixture in an engine, especially to help start it when cold.

stifle — full definition

1. verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
2. verb To make breathing difficult, or to smother.
3. noun In horses and other four-legged animals, the joint on the hind leg that corresponds to the human knee.

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