kvæle — meaning in English

English meaning

• murder noun The crime of deliberately killing another person.
• smother verb To cover something so completely that it cannot get air, cutting off its breathing or, for a fire, its oxygen.
• stifle verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
• strangle verb To kill or injure someone by squeezing their throat and cutting off their air.
• suffocate verb To die, or cause someone to die, from lack of oxygen.

Senses

kvæle is used for these senses in English:

• murder (figuratively, colloquial, British) To devour, ravish.
• smother (intransitive) To be suffocated.
• stifle (transitive, also, figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.

murder — full definition

1. noun The crime of deliberately killing another person.
2. verb To deliberately and unlawfully kill someone.
3. noun The collective noun for a group of crows.
4. verb To do something very badly, or to defeat someone completely (informal).

smother — full definition

1. verb To cover something so completely that it cannot get air, cutting off its breathing or, for a fire, its oxygen.
2. verb To suppress or hold back a feeling, reaction, or activity almost completely.
3. verb To cover something thickly, especially food, with a sauce, topping, or affection.

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