verb
- Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing.
- usage: "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
- synonyms: smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
- Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.
- usage: "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- synonyms: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke
- Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen.
- usage: "The child suffocated under the pillow"
- synonyms: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
adjective
- In a state of asphyxia. .
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