suffocate

Definition of suffocate in English English dictionary: To die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body; To kill a person or creature by depriving it of sufficient oxygen intake; To suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body; To make weary with excessive and prolonged contact, as though depriving of oxygen; To cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body; To be overwhelmed by a person or issue, surrounded as though being deprived of oxygen; struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"; {v} to choke, stifle, smother, kill; feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating" be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children; suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"; To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire; If someone suffocates or is suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe. He either suffocated, or froze to death They were suffocated as they slept. + suffocation suf·fo·ca·tion Many of the victims died of suffocation; be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"; impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children; You say that a person or thing is suffocating, or that something is suffocating them, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy; impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"; deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"; To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother; Suffocated; choked; become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"; feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"; To cause someone to suffer severly reduced oxygen supply to his body; If you say that you are suffocating or that something is suffocating you, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe. That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room The airlessness of the room suffocated her; To become choked, stifled, or smothered; {f} smother, asphyxiate, kill by cutting of the oxygen supply; make it difficult to breathe; cause discomfort by cutting of the supply of fresh or cool air; stifle; be smothered
suffocated: Simple past tense and past participle of suffocate
suffocatingly: In a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates
The hall was suffocatingly crowded.
suffocation: Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death
A child left unattended may die of suffocation.
suffocation: A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia
The coroner reported three suffocations last week.
suffocation: {n} the act of choking or smothering
suffocated: feel suffocated to feel as if you are not free or do not have enough space
suffocated: Of someone or something that has died as a result of suffocation
suffocated: past of suffocate
suffocates: third-person singular of suffocate
suffocating: causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
suffocating: present participle of suffocate
suffocating: from Suffocate, v
suffocatingly: in a suffocating manner, in a smothering manner, stiflingly
suffocation: the condition of being derprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
suffocation: killing by depriving of oxygen
suffocation: {i} act of suffocating, act of killing by cutting of the oxygen supply; death caused by a lack of air or oxygen
suffocation: killing by depriving of oxygen the condition of being derprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
suffocation: asphyxia
suffocation: The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking

suffocate

Hyphenation

suf·fo·cate

Turkish pronunciation

sʌfıkeyt

Synonyms

asphyxiate, stifle, drown, smother, strangle

Antonyms

free, let go, loose

Pronunciation

/ˈsəfəˌkāt/ /ˈsʌfəˌkeɪt/

Etymology

[ 's&-f&-"kAt ] (verb.) 15th century. From Latin suffocatus, past participle of suffocare (“to choke, stifle”) sub (“under”) + faux (“the upper part of the throat, the pharynx”).

Tenses

suffocates, suffocating, suffocated

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