suffocate

Verb
  1. Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing (synset 201572009)
    "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
    entail: cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered
    is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
    same as: asphyxiate, smother
    verb group: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
  2. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of (synset 201478810)
    "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
    is a type of: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude - block passage through
    same as: asphyxiate, choke, stifle
  3. Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled (synset 200391905)
    "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
    is a type of: become, turn - undergo a change or development
    same as: choke
    verb group: choke, suffocate - suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
  4. Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of (synset 200391723)
    "His job suffocated him"
    is a type of: dampen, stifle - suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
    same as: choke
    verb group: choke, suffocate - become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
  5. Be asphyxiated;
    Die from lack of oxygen (synset 200360165)
    "The child suffocated under the pillow"
    is a type of: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    subtypes: strangle - die from strangulation
    same as: asphyxiate, stifle
    verb group: asphyxiate, smother, suffocate - deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
  6. Feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air (synset 200106166)
    "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
    is a type of: feel - be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
  7. Struggle for breath;
    Have insufficient oxygen intake (synset 200077451)
    "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
    is a type of: hurt, suffer - feel pain or be in pain
    same as: choke, gag, strangle

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