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What (who) is Suffocate - definition
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Suffocate; Suffocate (song)
suffocate
(suffocates, suffocating, suffocated)
1.
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.
VERB: V, be V-ed
• suffocation
Many of the victims died of suffocation.
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2.
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.
VERB: V, V n
3.
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.
VERB: V, V n
suffocate
¦ verb die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe.
?have or cause to have difficulty in breathing.
Derivatives
suffocating adjective
suffocatingly adverb
suffocation noun
Origin
C15 (earlier (ME) as suffocation): from L. suffocat-, suffocare 'stifle', from sub- 'below' + fauces 'throat'.
Suffocate
·adj Suffocated; choked.
II. Suffocate ·vi To become choked, stifled, or smothered.
Wikipedia
Suffocation (disambiguation)
Suffocation is the process of Asphyxia.
Suffocation or Suffocate may also refer to:
- Suffocation (band), an American death metal band
- Suffocation (album), 2006
- "Suffocation", a song on Morbid Angel's debut album, Altars of Madness
- "Suffocation", a song on Obituary's debut album Slowly We Rot
- "Suffocation", a song on Vangelis's album See You Later
- "Suffocate", a song by Finger Eleven from their 2000 album The Greyest of Blue Skies (album)
- "Suffocate", a song by Cold from their 2003 album Year of the Spider
- "Suffocate", a song by Green Day from their 2002 album Shenanigans
- "Suffocate" (Feeder song), a 1998 single by Feeder
- "Suffocate" (J. Holiday song), a 2007 single by J. Holiday
- "Suffocate", a song by Mutiny Within from Mutiny Within
- "Suffocate" (King Adora song), 2001
- "Suffocate", a song by Crossfade from their 2011 album We All Bleed
Examples of use of Suffocate
1. "We‘re not going to let our town suffocate," she says.
2. With repeated hearing the artifice begins to cloy and suffocate." I agree with him.
3. The true motive is to suffocate the people of Gaza, especially the government.
4. Sailors would suffocate in the dense black fumes caused by petrol, oil and burning rubber.
5. I was hit by the thought that I‘d probably suffocate before I drowned.