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suffocate

English

🔊 feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
“The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating”
🔊 be asphyxiated
“The child suffocated under the pillow”
🔊 suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
“His job suffocated him”
🔊 become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
“He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village”
🔊 impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
“The foul air was slowly suffocating the children”
🔊 deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
“Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow”
🔊 struggle for breath
“he swallowed a fishbone and gagged”