sofocar

Meaning

  1. to suffocate, to stifle, to smother
  2. to quell, to suppress, to put down, to crush, to quash, to squelch

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Hyphenated as
so‧fo‧car
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sofoˈkaɾ/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suffōcāre. Compare English suffocate.

Cognate with English
English
suffocate

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