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Suffocate vs Suffocated - What's the difference?

suffocate | suffocated |

As verbs the difference between suffocate and suffocated

is that suffocate is (ergative) to suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body while suffocated is (suffocate).

As adjectives the difference between suffocate and suffocated

is that suffocate is (obsolete) suffocated; choked while suffocated is of someone or something that has died as a result of suffocation.

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)

    External links

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    suffocated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of someone or something that has died as a result of suffocation.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (suffocate)