suffocate
Meaning of suffocate
verb
- 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 overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
- To destroy; to extinguish.
to suffocate fire
adjective
Suffocated; choked.
Information about suffocate
- The plural form of suffocate is: suffocates.
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Hyphenation of suffocate
suf-fo-cate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- suffocate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
suffocate synonyms
Meaning smother:
Meaning stifle:
Meaning choke:
Meaning gag:
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Anagrams of suffocate
Words that rhyme with suffocate
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