Thesaurus / suffocate
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See also synonyms for: suffocated / suffocating
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They pay in having to cope with sizzling health waves, powerful hurricanes, and suffocating wildfire smoke.
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Discovering that plants need sunlight to grow, or that fish will suffocate when taken out of water, requires no quantification of anything whatsoever.
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Scores of businesses in the city are suffocating as they delay their return to work or, worse, decide to work from home forever.
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We’ve read through quite a few letters about Zoom, suffocating family dinners, the role of sound and music, birthdays and anniversaries, and racially charged encounters.
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In industries where specific brand names have become synonymous with their original product, new brands can easily be suffocated out of the game.
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Tell the person he is suffocating in water, and he will suffocate, unless you prevent him.
THE SPIRIT LANDSAMUEL B. (SAMUEL BULFINCH) EMMONS
If I should be pulled up I might be jerked away from my air-supply and suffocate before I got to the surface.
JOHN GAYTHER'S GARDEN AND THE STORIES TOLD THEREINFRANK R. STOCKTON
Let me out double-quick; I stifle, I suffocate, I do not breaze.
KING OF THE AIRHERBERT STRANG
And that suggested another idea—that he might suffocate before he starved.
SAMUEL THE SEEKERUPTON SINCLAIR
It made her feel she could not breathe: she must suffocate, it was so inhuman.
THE RAINBOWD. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
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