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.
Definitions
- adjective. Suffocated; choked.
- transitive verb. To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
- transitive verb. To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
- intransitive verb. To become choked, stifled, or smothered.
- verb. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- verb. feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
"The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
- verb. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
"The child suffocated under the pillow"
- verb. suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
"His job suffocated him"
- verb. become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
"He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
- verb. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
choke, gag, strangle, asphyxiate, stifle, smother
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in suffocate:
Common word forms
suffocated, suffocates, suffocating
Words from these letters
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