suffocate
verbcandidate·updated Jun 3, 2026
To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
Legacy lexicon import
Senses
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struggle for breath
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feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
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be asphyxiated
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suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
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become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
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impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
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deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
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Automation
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Variants
- synonym
- chokesmotherstifle
- pasttense
- suffocated
- presentparticiple
- suffocating
- thirdpersonsingular
- suffocates
- pastparticiple
- suffocated