suffocate
suh fuh kayt
- v deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor - v impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- v become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- v suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
His job suffocated him - v be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
The child suffocated under the pillow - v feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- v struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- Fish and other sea life flee, or suffocate.
- The Soviets lost a crew on reentry in 1970 after an oxygen leak that caused the cosmonauts to suffocate on the way down.
- The PNAS study, led by Henry Adams, a doctoral student at UA's ecology and evolutionary biology department, also confirms that hotter temperatures actually suffocate trees in dry .