VERB | contact | suffocate, smother, asphyxiate | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing |
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contact | suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | |
change | suffocate, choke | become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | |
change | suffocate, choke | suppress the development, creativity, or imagination / imagination of | |
change | suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate | be asphyxiated | |
body | suffocate | feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air | |
body | suffocate, gag, choke, strangle | struggle / struggle for breath |
Sounds | sah'fahkey.t | |
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Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... |
Meaning | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
Model | They want to suffocate the prisoners | |
Example | "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" | |
Synonyms | smother, asphyxiate | |
Entails | cover | Provide with a covering or cause to be covered |
Broader | kill | Cause to die |
Similar to | suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate | Be asphyxiated |
Spanish | asfixiar, sofocar | |
Catalan | asfixiar | |
Nouns | suffocation | killing by depriving of oxygen |
Meaning | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | stifle, asphyxiate, choke | |
Broader | obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up | Block passage through |
Spanish | asfixiar, estrangular, reprimir, sofocar | |
Catalan | asfixiar, estrangular, reprimir, sufocar | |
Adjectives | suffocative | causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat |
Nouns | suffocation | the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) |
Meaning | Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Synonym | choke | |
Broader | become, turn | Undergo a change or development |
Similar to | suffocate, choke | Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination / imagination of |
Meaning | Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination / imagination of. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
Example | "His job suffocated him" | |
Synonym | choke | |
Broader | stifle, dampen | smother or suppress |
Similar to | suffocate, choke | Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled |
Meaning | Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Example | "The child suffocated under the pillow" | |
Synonyms | stifle, asphyxiate | |
Narrower | strangle | die from strangulation |
Broader | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
Similar to | smother, asphyxiate, suffocate | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing |
Spanish | ahogarse, asfixiarse, asfixiar, atragantarse, reprimir, sofocarse | |
Catalan | asfixiar-se, asfixiar, ennuegar-se, ofegar-se, reprimir, sufocar-se | |
Adjectives | suffocative | causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat |
Nouns | suffocation | killing by depriving of oxygen |
Meaning | Feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Broader | feel | Be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state |
Adjectives | suffocative | causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat |
Meaning | struggle / struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s on something; Somebody ----s PP | |
Synonyms | gag, choke, strangle | |
Broader | suffer, hurt | Feel pain or be in pain |
Spanish | ahogar, asfixiar, estrangular, sofocar | |
Catalan | asfixiar, escanyar, estrangular, ofegar, sufocar | |
Adjectives | suffocative | causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat |
Nouns | suffocation | the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) |
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