Sekirov Dictionary

suffocate

/ˈsʌfəkeɪt/

verb 4
adjective 2
forms 6

verb4

•
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 destroy; to extinguish.
•
(figurative) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- I'm suffocating under this huge workload.

adjective2

(no longer used) Suffocated, choked.
•
(no longer used) Smothered, overwhelmed.
- This chaos, when degree is suffocate, follows the choking — 1602

forms

suffocated · suffocating · suffocates · suffocateth · more suffocate · most suffocate

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