suffocate
/หsสfษkeษชt/IPA: /S AH1 F AH0 K EY0 T/
verb
- 1
To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
โOpen the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!โ
- 2
To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
โHe suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.โ
- 3
To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
โI'm suffocating under this huge workload.โ
- 4
To destroy; to extinguish.
โto suffocate fireโ
adjective
- 1
Suffocated; choked.
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