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Strife vs Suffocate - What's the difference?

strife | suffocate |

As a noun strife

is conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.

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.

strife

English

Noun

  • Conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.

    • Synonyms

    * (conflict) conflict, contention, discord

    Derived terms

    * trouble and strife

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Anagrams

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    suffocate

    English

    Verb

    (suffocat)
  • (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
    • Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
  • (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
    • He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate .
  • (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
    • I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
  • To destroy; to extinguish.
    • to suffocate fire

    Synonyms

    * (To suffer from reduced oxygen) asphyxiate * (To die from insufficient oxygen) stifle * (To be overwhelmed) drown * (To reduce oxygen supply) asphyxiate, smother * (To kill by deprivation of oxygen) asphyxiate, stifle * (To make weary with contact) smother

    Derived terms

    * suffocation

    Related terms

    * asphyxia

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Suffocated; choked.
    • (Shakespeare)

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