étouffer

Les racines étoufferont en saleté.
The roots will smother in dirt.
Si nous laissons les mauvaises herbes dans le sol, et passons notre temps à nous amuser, elles étoufferont les récoltes, et comme le fils prodigue, nous connaîtrons la famine.
If we leave the obnoxious weeds in the ground, and spend our time having fun, they will choke out the crops, and we, like the prodigal, will have famine.
En tant qu'eurodéputée irlandaise, je suis très sensible à la manière dont on nous impose l'adoption de mesures d'austérité dont il y a tout lieu de croire qu'elles étoufferont toute possibilité de croissance.
As an Irish MEP, I am acutely aware of how we are being told to implement austerity measures and the real fear is that this will smother any opportunity for growth.
Ils étoufferont l'affaire.
Nobody will hear about this.
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