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Definition of Suffocate
1. Verb. Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing. "They want to suffocate the prisoners "; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
Related verbs: Asphyxiate, Stifle
Generic synonyms: Kill
Entails: Cover
Derivative terms: Asphyxia, Asphyxiation, Asphyxiation, Suffocation
2. Verb. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of. "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
Generic synonyms: Block, Close Up, Impede, Jam, Obstruct, Obturate, Occlude
Derivative terms: Asphyxia, Asphyxiation, Choking, Suffocation, Suffocative
3. Verb. Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled. "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
4. Verb. Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of. "His job suffocated him"
5. Verb. Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen. "The child suffocated under the pillow"
Generic synonyms: Buy The Farm, Cash In One's Chips, Choke, Conk, Croak, Decease, Die, Drop Dead, Exit, Expire, Give-up The Ghost, Go, Kick The Bucket, Pass, Pass Away, Perish, Pop Off, Snuff It
Specialized synonyms: Strangle
Related verbs: Asphyxiate, Smother
Derivative terms: Asphyxia, Asphyxiation, Asphyxiation, Suffocation, Suffocative
6. Verb. Feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air. "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
7. Verb. Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake. "He swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
Generic synonyms: Hurt, Suffer
Derivative terms: Choking, Suffocation, Suffocative
Definition of Suffocate
1. a. Suffocated; choked.
2. v. t. To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
3. v. i. To become choked, stifled, or smothered.
Definition of Suffocate
1. Verb. (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body. ¹
2. Verb. (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body. ¹
3. Verb. (ergative figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suffocate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffocate
Literary usage of Suffocate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New System of Criminal Procedure, Pleading and Evidence in Indictable by John Frederick Archbold (1852)
"The attempt to suffocate, as stated in the indictment. 2. The intent to murder,
as ante, p. 258. 15. Attempting to Strangle. Indictment. to wit. i oath ..."
2. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Comprising the Law Relative to by John Frederick Archbold (1840)
"Commitment:— On , at , feloniously did attempt to drown [or suffocate, or strangle]
one AB, by then and there [&c. stating how], with intent then and there ..."
3. The Pro-slavery Argument, as Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of by William Harper, James Henry Hammond, William Gilmore Simms, Thomas Roderick Dew (1852)
"... is suffocate. Follows the choking."* • Pope, too, not to speak of a hundred
others, has like authority. " Order is heaven's 6rst law, ..."
4. William Clayton's Journal: A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original by William Clayton (1921)
"The clouds of dust were almost sufficient to suffocate everyone. I rode Heber's
horse this afternoon and went before the wagons. Saw many antelope, and the ..."
5. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Birds suffocate and Die.—The Sun's Disc Seen in Some Places.—Oily Deposit on the
Waters.—Impenetrable Darkness at Night,—Incidents and Anecdotes. ..."
6. The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of (1853)
"Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when degree is suffocate, follows the choking."* *
Pope, too, not to speak of a hundred others, ..."
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