Englisch-Portugiesisch Übersetzung für smother

sufocarA recessão está a sufocar as empresas e as alterações climáticas são cada vez mais dramáticas. The recession is smothering businesses and climate change grows ever more stark. A União Europeia abraça o capitalismo global e este abraço acabará por nos sufocar a todos. The European Union's embrace of global capitalism is an embrace that will smother us all. Será que sufocará as PME do sector alimentar com uma regulamentação cada vez mais rígida, que os cidadãos cada vez suportam menos? Will it smother small- and medium-sized food businesses with even stricter regulation, that will be tolerated by fewer and fewer citizens?

To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone
To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
In cookery: to cook in a close dish
To daub or smear
To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like
to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed
To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away
That which smothers or appears to smother, ''particularly''

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