soffocare
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sof.foˈka.re/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: sof‧fo‧cà‧re
Verb
soffocàre (first-person singular present sòffoco, first-person singular past historic soffocài, past participle soffocàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to suffocate, stifle, choke, smother
- Synonym: spegnere
- (transitive, figurative) to choke back, choke down, suppress, silence, hush up, cover up, scotch
- (intransitive) to choke, suffocate, be stifled [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of soffocàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- soffocare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana