Lewis Short
(verb) : prae-fōco, āvi, ātum, 1, faux
* 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.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary