задыха́ться — meaning in English

English meaning

• asphyxiate verb To smother or suffocate someone.
• choke verb To be unable to breathe because something is blocking the throat or windpipe.
• gasp verb To suddenly draw in breath, usually from shock or surprise.
• pant noun A quick, heavy breath, especially after exertion.
• 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.
• suffocate verb To die, or cause someone to die, from lack of oxygen.

Senses

задыха́ться is used for these senses in English:

• asphyxiate (intransitive) To be smothered or suffocated.
• choke (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
• gasp (intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion; to respire with heaving of the breast; to pant.
• pant (ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
• scrag (obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.
• smother (intransitive) To be suffocated.
• smother (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.

asphyxiate — full definition

1. verb To smother or suffocate someone.
2. verb To be smothered or suffocated.

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.

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