suffocated
窒息した
解説 Definition
suffocated は suffocate（窒息する、窒息させる）の過去形・過去分詞です。空気が足りずに息ができなくなった状態を表し、医学的・事故的な文脈で使われます。
The past tense and past participle of suffocate, meaning that a person or animal was unable to breathe because air or oxygen was blocked or unavailable. It can describe a completed event, a near-fatal experience, or the result of an external cause.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 suffocate「窒息する・させる」の語末の e を残して -d を付けた過去形・過去分詞です。発音は語尾が /-keɪtɪd/ となります。suffocated in smoke「煙で窒息した」、suffocated from lack of oxygen「酸素不足で窒息した」のように、呼吸を妨げた原因と結び付けて覚えましょう。
Connect suffocated to the base verb suffocate, “to be unable to breathe or to cause that condition.” Because suffocate already ends in e, its past form is made by adding only d in spelling: suffocate plus -d. The ending is pronounced as an extra syllable, approximately /-keɪtɪd/. Picture smoke filling a room or oxygen disappearing from water. Common patterns include almost suffocated, could have suffocated, and suffocated from lack of oxygen. These contexts keep the word tied to a serious failure of breathing.
例文
The patient almost suffocated before help arrived.
助けが来る前に、その患者は危うく窒息するところでした。
Several fish suffocated when the water lost oxygen.
水中の酸素がなくなり、数匹の魚が窒息しました。
He could have suffocated in the smoke-filled room.
彼は煙が充満した部屋で窒息していた可能性がありました。
suffocated の類義語・関連語
suffocated の語源・成り立ち Etymology
suffocated は suffocate の過去形・過去分詞。suffocate はラテン語 suffocare に由来し、sub-/suf-「下から」+ faux/fauc-「のど」で、『のどをふさいで息を止める』という原義から『窒息した』になる。関連語に suffocation。
Suffocate comes from Latin suffocare, meaning to choke or deprive of breath. The first element is a form of sub-, “under” or “from below,” altered to suf- before f, and the second is associated with Latin fauces, “throat” or “jaws.” The historical formation evokes pressure or blockage at the throat. Suffocated is the regular past-tense and past-participle form, made by adding -d to the final e of suffocate.
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