Definition of Suffocated

1. Adjective. Of someone or something that has died as a result of suffocation. ¹

2. Verb. (past of suffocate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suffocated

1. suffocate [v] - See also: suffocate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffocated

suffixoid
suffixoids
sufflaminate
sufflaminated
sufflaminates
sufflaminating
sufflate
sufflated
sufflates
sufflating
sufflation
sufflations
sufflue
sufflues
suffocate
suffocated (current term)
suffocates
suffocateth
suffocating
suffocatingly
suffocation
suffocations
suffocative
suffonsified
suffonsify
suffosion
suffossion
suffossions
suffragan
suffragan bishop

Literary usage of Suffocated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Palmer's Index to the Times NewspaperTimes (London, England (1884)
"(continued). at Nottingham, 31 j 5 f John Price, Found suffocated in an Ashpit, from a Rock at Aussee, while gathering Alpine Flowers. ..."

2. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834)
"... reported that " many were suffocated and drowned in the marsh," and this has been repeated by historians. Colonel Haslet, who crossed the marsh, ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"According to others, he was suffocated in his sleep by the vapour of charcoal, which extracted from the walls of the apartment the unwholesome moisture of ..."

4. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"On thirteenth day rat B *** suffocated. Died in twenty-six hours at which time rat A was killed and t»c livers compared. Both show complete regeneration. ..."

5. Bradbury's Workmen's Compensation and State Insurance Law by Harry Bower Bradbury (1914)
"A servant residing in her mistress's house was suffocated in her bedroom ... She shared the room with a lame cook, and she and the cook were suffocated. ..."

6. The Law of Horses: Including the Law of Innkeepers, Veterinary Surgeons, Etc by George Henry Hewitt Oliphant, Clement Elphinstone Lloyd (1882)
"The lid of one of the vans having become closed in the course of the journey, several of the cattle were suffocated. The drover travelled in the same ..."

7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"... trench of an old sulphur-mine in New Granada he was »Imo-t suffocated and thrown into a violent perspiration by this gas, the heat of which he believed, ..."

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