Word Finder - suffocated

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To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

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Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!

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To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.

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He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.

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To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.

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I'm suffocating under this huge workload.

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To destroy; to extinguish.

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to suffocate fire

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Having died as a result of suffocation.

Gone. And in comes the suffocated feeling.

Almost suffocated with misery, I hesitated, looked back briefly, then carried on.

Children are injured and even killed every year because they have become entangled in the framework of their elevated beds and suffocated.

She used to have a partner, Barney, but he suffocated on a plastic toy that was thrown in by visitors.

Isolated in such blocks the selected prisoner perished either from hunger or from an injection of phenol or were suffocated by gas.

You can be hung, impaled, suffocated in mud, torched, eaten and splattered across the screen in an instant.

From time to time horrifying stories reach the press of migrants suffocated in air-tight container trucks.

The thrill of the chase can be a big draw, but that suffocated feeling comes with knowing you made the wrong choice.

Today, shapewear is designed with both function and comfort in mind, so you're less likely to feel suffocated.

This membrane solves one of the major complaints of hunters, allowing them to stay dry without feeling suffocated by the closeness of the fabric.

Nightmares provoke a feeling of imminent physical danger with a sensation of being trapped or suffocated.

It was her character's death in Goldfinger where her boss encased her in gold and suffocated her that made her such a star.

In it Macleod of Skye, towards the end of the r6th century, ordered 200 Macdonalds, inhabitants of the isle - men, women and children - to be suffocated, their bones being found long afterwards.

His disorder was an oedematous affection of the wind-pipe, contracted by exposure during a long ride in a snowstorm, and aggravated by neglect and by such contemporary remedies as bleeding, gargles of "molasses, vinegar and butter" and "vinegar and sage tea," which "almost suffocated him," and a blister of cantharides.

As to Afghanistan, the vizier Yar Mahommed had in 1842, when the British troops were perishing in the passes, or otherwise in the midst of dangers, caused Kamran to be suffocated in his prison.

A daily life suffocated by a rash of new rules and regulations, bills and prices.

During the night, while at Edmund Byers, the boiler went out and were nearly suffocated by the fumes.

I then suffocated them by blocking their airways with polish.

The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was accidentally suffocated by drowning.

After a brief reign, characterized, it is said, by dignity and talent, he died in July 1274, suffocated, according to the generally received accounts, by his own fat.

Throwing a blanket over me, she almost suffocated me, but she put out the fire.