Definition:
to suffocate, smother, stifle, choke, muffle, deaden, suppress, hush up
Cette chaleur m'étouffe ! - This heat is smothering me!
Est-ce que ça t'etoufferait de dire merci ? - Would it kill you to say thank you?
Il faut trouver un moyen d'étouffer ce bruit - We need to find a way to muffle this noise
Il n'essaie pas d'étouffer le scandale - He's not trying to hush up the scandal
Related: étouffant - suffocating, stiffling; étouffement (m noun) - suffocation
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Cette chaleur m'étouffe ! - This heat is smothering me!
Est-ce que ça t'etoufferait de dire merci ? - Would it kill you to say thank you?
Il faut trouver un moyen d'étouffer ce bruit - We need to find a way to muffle this noise
Il n'essaie pas d'étouffer le scandale - He's not trying to hush up the scandal
Related: étouffant - suffocating, stiffling; étouffement (m noun) - suffocation
(click the little red + white graphic below to hear the Mot du jour pronounced)
Pronunciation: [ay too fay] Audio Link
