Dictionary Entry
suffocate
suffocate is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Suffocated; choked. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Suffocated; choked.
- 2transitive verb
To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
- 3transitive verb
To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
- 4intransitive verb
To become choked, stifled, or smothered.
- 5verb
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- 6verb
feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
"The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
- 7verb
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
"The child suffocated under the pillow"
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- 8verb
suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
"His job suffocated him"
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- 9verb
become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
"He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
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- 10verb
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
Synonyms
- 11verb
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"
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