suck the air out of

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, air, out.
  2. To dominate or overwhelm, preventing anything or anyone else from receiving attention.
    — “We spent time on learning facilitation skills in order to bring all voices into their conversations, to quiet those who tend to 'suck the air' out of ...
  3. To destroy; to cause to become lifeless and empty.
    — It was this last possibility that sucked the air out of me. It was this that caused me to finally collapse back into the driver's seat of my car and tremble like I'd just come in soaking wet from a cold, hard rain, like I'd just started trying to extract the poison from my system all over again.

词形变化

sucks the air out of present,singular,third-person sucking the air out of participle,present sucked the air out of participle,past sucked the air out of past suck all the air out of alternative suck the oxygen out of alternative
4 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary