suffocate

“Take advantage of the time you have ahead of you to understand risk better. Don’t suffocate your portfolio” by allocating too much for income-based investments.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

Their breath was believed to poison the air and suffocate the land, especially in swampy regions where disease was common.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

A completely overhauled defense learned to suffocate opposing offenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

Ten of the Spanish squad in Switzerland are Barcelona players so the way they play is very similar - out of possession they want to suffocate you.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

Again the breath wafted toward Ignatius, who pressed the scarf to his nose so tightly that he felt he would suffocate.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

In mixing the cerebral with the sensual, Eusexua mostly succeeds – but occasionally the precision of Twigs' vision suffocates the spontaneity she was aiming for.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

However, if there is too much calcium, the mitochondrial processes become unbalanced and the cell suffocates.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

For much of the summer, Lake Okeechobee suffocates under toxic, blue-green algae blooms fed by fertilizer runoff from farms.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

In Los Angeles County alone, a baby suffocates nearly every week while sleeping, according to the infant safe sleep campaign from the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

There is a new air in our conversations, short and choppy, so hot that the effort suffocates us both.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

If these were suffocated by crude oil, "the consequences can be enormous to all species," Rosenstrom added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I feel suffocated and breathless when it is too hot,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

"Around 9 pm, I was feeling suffocated and nostalgic, so I got in the car to drive around town," a 28-year-old woman told AFP on Monday on condition that her identity be protected.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

"It gets to a point where you're being suffocated and you need to breathe, and I feel this is my way of trying to breathe," Harrison said.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

He felt suffocated as he looked around the library.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

And maybe it was the focus-sapping heat, but USC’s defense wasn’t as stifling, not as suffocating it should have been against an opponent as hopelessly overmatched as San José State.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Carolina Hurricanes win their first Stanley Cup championship in 20 years, using a suffocating defense in Game 6 to shut down the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

"We're suffocating in the streets, we're suffocating in the subway and we're even suffocating in our rental," he said, adding they would be moving to an air-conditioned hotel room.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

It also places additional strains on infrastructure; Yes campaign posters depict suffocating traffic jams and apartment blocks rising over pristine villages and fields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Our household had been caught unprepared, so long had the heat hung over us like a suffocating shroud.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly