I.to choke, strangle, suffocate (poet. and postclass. for suffoco): “animae viam,” Ov. Ib. 560: “partum,” Dig. 25, 3, 4: “Jovem,” Arn. 7, 29: “messis praefocata,” Calp. Ecl. 4, 115: “ex abundantiā praefocari,” Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 12.
prae-fōco , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. faux,