affogare

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (transitive) to drown (to kill by suffocating in a liquid)
  2. (literary, transitive) to extinguish, to put out
  3. (figuratively, literary, transitive) to oppress, to overbear, to overwhelm
  4. (transitive) to smother
  5. (intransitive) to drown (to die by suffocating in a liquid)
  6. (figuratively, intransitive) to be oppressed or overwhelmed

Frecuencia

C2
Con guión como
af‧fo‧gà‧re
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/af.foˈɡa.re/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *affōcāre, alteration of Latin offōcāre.

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