задушити

Ukrainian

From за- (za-) +‎ души́ти (dušýty). Compare Russian задуши́ть (zadušítʹ), Belarusian задушы́ць (zadušýcʹ), Polish zadusić.

задуши́ти • (zadušýty) pf (imperfective заду́шувати) (transitive)

to strangle, to throttle (to kill by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply)
to suffocate, to asphyxiate, to choke, to smother, to stifle (to cause to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply; to obstruct the respiration of)
(figuratively) to suffocate (to overwhelm)
(figuratively) to smother, to stifle (to reduce to a low degree of vigour or activity; to hold back, or repress)

Conjugation of задуши́ти, задуши́ть (class 4b, perfective, transitive)

For declension of participles, see their entries. Adverbial participles are indeclinable.
perfective aspect
infinitive	задуши́ти, задуши́ть zadušýty, zadušýtʹ
participles	present tense	past tense
active	—	—
passive	—	заду́шений zadúšenyj impersonal: заду́шено zadúšeno
adverbial	—	задуши́вши zadušývšy
	present tense	future tense
1st singular я	—	задушу́ zadušú
2nd singular ти	—	задуши́ш zadušýš
3rd singular він / вона / воно	—	задуши́ть zadušýtʹ
1st plural ми	—	задуши́м, задушимо́ zadušým, zadušymó
2nd plural ви	—	задушите́ zadušyté
3rd plural вони	—	задуша́ть zadušátʹ
imperative	singular	plural
first-person	—	задуші́м, задуші́мо zaduším, zadušímo
second-person	задуши́ zadušý	задуші́ть zadušítʹ
past tense	singular	plural ми / ви / вони
masculine я / ти / він	задуши́в zadušýv	задуши́ли zadušýly
feminine я / ти / вона	задуши́ла zadušýla
neuter воно	задуши́ло zadušýlo

Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2014), “задушити”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 5 (з – зв'я́нути), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
“задушити”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)