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Suffocate   /sˈəfəkˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Suffocate  v. t.  (past & past part. suffocated; pres. part. suffocating)  
1.
To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. "Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate."
2.
To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.


Suffocate  v. i.  To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage."


adjective
Suffocate  adj.  Suffocated; choked.





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"Suffocate" Quotes from Famous Books



... their development, the larvae wiggled up to the surface and inhaled it through curious little tubes developed for this purpose, oddly enough from their tail-ends. If some kind of film could be spread over the surface of the water, through which the larvae could not obtain air, they would suffocate. The well-known property of oil in "scumming over" water was recalled, two or three stagnant pools were treated with it, and to the delight of the experimenters, not a single larva was able to develop under the circumstances. Here was insecticide number one. The cheapest of oils, ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson
... myriad quivering tracks of a myriad running insects over his hot, wet, highly-sensitized body. His nerves were trembling, one and all, with outrage and vivid suspense. It became unbearable. He felt that, if he endured it another moment, he would cry out, or suffocate and burst. ...
— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence
... he and his charmer might sit together under the shade of the sail for an hour at a stretch, he holding her hand in his and neither saying a single word, though at times the transports of poor Barnaby's emotions would go far to suffocate him with their rapture. As for her face at such moments, it appeared sometimes to assume a transparency as though of a light shining ...
— Stolen Treasure • Howard Pyle
... different from the dust which whirls about him on the highway, or the stone over which he stumbles. This is precisely the character of those speculative systems which deny the reality of action and substitute the idea for the deed; such a world does more than suffocate the individual soul; it destroys the very meaning of life by robbing it of moral order and meaning. The end of such a conception of the universe is necessarily annihilation, and its mood ...
— Books and Culture • Hamilton Wright Mabie
... understood him, and with whom he could converse at his ease. Though he was lionized, he was lionized by people who understood the sensitiveness of artistic natures. They flattered delicately and tastefully. Their incense excited, but did not intoxicate or suffocate. In one of the drawing rooms the gratified artist beheld his picture placed in an admirable light, the cynosure of all eyes, and the theme ...
— The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales • Francis A. Durivage


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