1. In most fires many people got killed not because they were burned to death but because they were suffocated. 发生火灾时，在大多数情况下，许多人并非死于大火，而是死于窒息。
2. The baby will suffocate if the blanket is over his face. 毯子如果盖在小宝宝脸上，他可能会窒息。
3. Although pedestrian street training, but that really is a piece uniforms suffocate people, like a sauna in the enjoyment. 虽然在步行街训练，不过那件军服还真是闷死人，活像在享受桑拿。
英英解释
v.
1. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
2. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
3. become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
4. suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
5. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
6. feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
7. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
