suffocate
suffocate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak.
- 2.To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
- 3.To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is to choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak called?
- What is to destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire called?
- What is to become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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