suffocate
/ˈsʌfəkeɪt/
Dictionary
verb
- To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
"Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!"
- To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
"He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head."
- To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
"I'm suffocating under this huge workload."
- To destroy; to extinguish.
"to suffocate fire"
adjective
- Suffocated; choked.
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