S vs Suffocate - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
(ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
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(ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
To destroy; to extinguish.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb suffocate is
(ergative) to suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.As an adjective suffocate is
(obsolete) suffocated; choked.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}suffocate
English
Verb
(suffocat)- Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
- He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
- Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate .
- I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
- to suffocate fire