suffocate oor Afrikaans

suffocate

/'sʌfəkeɪt/ adjektief, werkwoord

(intransitive) To suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

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(September 22, 1989) made me realize to what degree I had suffocated my friendships.
(22 September 1989) het my laat besef in watter mate ek my vriendskappe versmoor het.

Megacities Slowly Suffocating
Groot stede is stadig aan die verstik

Just as the Jewish clergy of Christ’s time fought tooth and nail to stop his ministry, so the clergy and apostates, in league with their political paramours, have tried to suffocate the great educational witness work of Jehovah’s people.—Acts 28:22; Matthew 26:59, 65-67.
Net soos die Joodse geestelikes van Christus se tyd hand en tand geveg het om sy bediening stop te sit, het die geestelikes en afvalliges, kop in een mus met hulle politieke minnaars, die groot opvoedkundige getuieniswerk van Jehovah se volk probeer smoor.—Handelinge 28:22; Matteus 26:59, 65-67.

AS HORSE-DRAWN traffic increased in the 19th century, one man predicted that European cities would eventually suffocate in manure.
NAMATE die aantal perderytuie in die 19de eeu toegeneem het, het ’n man voorspel dat Europese stede uiteindelik vol perdemis sou wees.

This phenomenon is caused by eutrophication, a process that occurs when decomposing waste matter saps the water of its dissolved oxygen, suffocating much of the local flora and fauna.
Hierdie verskynsel word veroorsaak deur eutrofikasie, ’n proses wat voorkom wanneer ontbindende afvalstowwe die water van sy opgeloste suurstof beroof sodat baie van die plaaslike flora en fauna doodgaan.

There were no fans, and the heat was suffocating.” —Luis, Bolivia.
Daar was geen waaiers nie, en die hitte was versmorend.”—Luis, Bolivia.

However, because she herself had attended such readings, Antoinette was buried alive, to die slowly of suffocation.
Maar omdat sy hierdie voorlesings bygewoon het, is Antoinette lewendig begrawe sodat sy stadig weens versmoring gesterf het.

Equiano describes his impressions: “The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us.
Equiano beskryf sy indrukke: “Buite en behalwe die aantal mense in die skip, wat so vol was dat elkeen skaars plek gehad het om te draai, het die bedompigheid daarbinne en die warm klimaat ons amper laat versmoor.

While some survived with injuries, many died from suffocation, drowning, or from dashing against the boulders at the base of the falls.
Hoewel party met beserings oorleef het, het baie versmoor, verdrink of gesterf omdat hulle teen die rotse aan die onderkant van die waterval gestamp is.

The traveling overseer and his wife were overcome with dense smoke and suffocated.
Die reisende opsiener en sy vrou is deur digte rook oorval en het versmoor.

Sin and death, which have weighed on mankind like a suffocating blanket, will be no more.
Sonde en die dood, waarin die mensdom as ’t ware vasgevang is, sal nie meer daar wees nie.

Comparing sin and death to a suffocating “woven work,” or “envelopment,” he says: “In this mountain [Jehovah] will certainly swallow up the face of the envelopment that is enveloping over all the peoples, and the woven work that is interwoven upon all the nations.
Hy vergelyk sonde en die dood met ’n “weefsel” of “omhulling” wat ’n mens kan versmoor en sê: “Op hierdie berg sal [Jehovah] beslis die omhulling verswelg wat al die volke omhul, en die weefsel wat oor al die nasies geweef is.

Introduced from South America, the weed grows so fast that it has clogged and suffocated large areas of the lake’s shores and inlets, preventing access to the beaches and piers by cargo boats, passenger ferries, and canoes of the local fishermen.
Die onkruid wat van Suid-Amerika afkomstig is, groei so vinnig dat dit groot dele van die meer se oewers en inlope toegegroei en verstik het, en dit keer dat vragbote, passasiersveerbote en die kano’s van plaaslike vissers by die strande en dokke kan uitkom.

I would suddenly wake up with the feeling that I was suffocating.
Soms het ek skielik wakker geword en gevoel asof ek versmoor.

If it were not for the natural processes that God made so that the earth can renew itself, our terrestrial home would not support life, and man would likely long ago have suffocated in his own refuse.
Was dit nie vir die natuurlike prosesse wat God gemaak het sodat die aarde homself kan herstel nie, sou ons aardse tuiste nie lewe onderhou het nie, en sou die mensdom waarskynlik al lank gelede in sy eie afval versmoor het.

Nevertheless, Nobel’s belief that weapons of mass destruction would cause war to suffocate itself has not proved true, for wars with conventional weapons continue.
Maar in stryd met Nobel se oortuiging dat wapens vir massavernietiging ’n einde aan oorlog sou maak, word oorloë met konvensionele wapens nog steeds gevoer.

In the year 2000, fifty-eight Chinese migrants suffocated while hidden in a truck taking them from Belgium to England.
In die jaar 2000 het agt-en-vyftig Chinese emigrante versmoor toe hulle in ’n vragmotor weggekruip het wat hulle van België na Engeland toe geneem het.

Later their conversations turned rebellious when the group discussed, in whispered tones, the suffocating demands of the Portuguese Crown.
Later het hulle gesprekke opstandig van aard geword toe die groep in fluisterstemme die onderdrukkende eise van die Portugese Kroon bespreek het.

Other scriptures show that souls can be destroyed (Genesis 17:14), slain by the sword (Joshua 10:37), suffocated (Job 7:15), and drowned (Jonah 2:5).
Ander tekste toon dat siele vernietig kan word (Genesis 17:14), deur die swaard verslaan kan word (Josua 10:37), kan verstik (Job 7:15, NW) en kan verdrink (Jona 2:5).

Others, viewing nearly all outside influences as harmful, are so restrictive that the children feel as if they were suffocating.
Ander, wat so te sê alle eksterne invloede as skadelik beskou, is so beperkend dat die kinders voel asof hulle versmoor.

There is an ominous pattern behind the recent droughts, the failed harvests, and the polluted air that suffocates city after city.
Die onlangse droogtes, die misoeste en die besoedelde lug wat stad na stad versmoor, vorm ’n onheilspellende patroon.

Skeptics also insist that no man could stay alive within a fish for three days without suffocating.
Skeptici hou ook voet by stuk dat niemand drie dae lank in ’n vis kan lewe sonder om te versmoor nie.

Even if people are not directly persecuted, they may be the object of animosity or their ideas may be suffocated.
Selfs as mense nie direk vervolg word nie, kan hulle die teiken van vyandigheid wees of hulle idees kan onderdruk word.

They lay where they fell, suffocated by the lethal inhalations and covered as a result of the insistent rain of fine ash.
Hulle het bly lê waar hulle geval het, versmoor deur die inaseming van dodelike gasse en bedek deur die onophoudelike reën van fyn as.

Like a suffocating “envelopment” —a blanket— sin and death have weighed heavily on mankind.
Soos ’n versmorende “omhulling”—’n kombers—rus sonde en die dood swaar op die mensdom.