sofocar
Meaning
- to suffocate, to stifle, to smother
- to quell, to suppress, to put down, to crush, to quash, to squelch
Frequency
Hyphenated as
so‧fo‧car
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sofoˈkaɾ/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suffōcāre. Compare English suffocate.
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