Wikidiffcom vs Suffocate - What's the difference?
wikidiffcom | suffocate |
(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.
* Shakespeare
(ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
To destroy; to extinguish.
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.wikidiffcom
Not English
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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