- smothering, suffocating, suffocative - causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
Antonyms: breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic (indirect, via breathless)
- smother, asphyxiate, suffocate - deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
--1 is one way to kill
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun suffocation1
They want to suffocate the prisoners
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
--2 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun suffocation2
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- suffocate, choke - become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
--3 is one way to become, turn
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- suffocate, choke - suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"
--4 is one way to stifle, dampen
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
--5 is one way to die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun suffocation1
Somebody ----s
- suffocate - feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
--6 is one way to feel
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- gag, choke, strangle, suffocate - struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
--7 is one way to suffer, hurt
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun suffocation2
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s PP
- gag, choke, strangle, suffocate - struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"