Thesaurus / suffocate
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They pay in having to cope with sizzling health waves, powerful hurricanes, and suffocating wildfire smoke.
THIS ELECTION COULD DECIDE THE CLIMATE’S FUTUREULA CHROBAKOCTOBER 29, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEDiscovering that plants need sunlight to grow, or that fish will suffocate when taken out of water, requires no quantification of anything whatsoever.
WHY PHYSICS CAN’T TELL US WHAT LIFE IS - ISSUE 92: FRONTIERSJEREMY ENGLANDOCTOBER 21, 2020NAUTILUSScores of businesses in the city are suffocating as they delay their return to work or, worse, decide to work from home forever.
WHY NEW YORKERS AREN'T GOING BACK TO THEIR OFFICESERICA PANDEYOCTOBER 6, 2020AXIOSWe’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.
LETTER-WRITING STAVED OFF LOCKDOWN LONELINESS. NOW IT’S GETTING OUT THE VOTE.TANYA BASUSEPTEMBER 18, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIn industries where specific brand names have become synonymous with their original product, new brands can easily be suffocated out of the game.
INBOUND MARKETING FOR BRAND AWARENESS: FOUR UP-TO-DATE WAYS TO DO ITALI FAAGBASEPTEMBER 11, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCHAs it was, ere he had time to suffocate, MacPherson was on the spot.
EARTH'S ENIGMASCHARLES G. D. ROBERTSThey would first suffocate, and later their bodies would be swallowed up in the stomach of the earth.
THE LAND OF THE CHANGING SUNWILLIAM N. HARBENThe gas emitted from this fissure is so strong that it would suffocate a person, holding his head near the ground.
EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846, VOLUME XXXJOEL PALMERInsects do not easily suffocate, and it is worse than useless, in the majority of cases, to punch air-holes in such boxes.
DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTSC. V. RILEYMany females in fact cry out at those times, that something has broken in the throat, and they fear they are going to suffocate.
THE MATRON'S MANUAL OF MIDWIFERY, AND THE DISEASES OF WOMEN DURING PREGNANCY AND IN CHILDBEDFREDERICK HOLLICKWORDS RELATED TO SUFFOCATE
- annihilate
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- crucify
- dispatch
- do away with
- do in
- drown
- dump
- electrocute
- eradicate
- erase
- execute
- exterminate
- extirpate
- finish
- garrote
- get
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- immolate
- liquidate
- lynch
- massacre
- murder
- neutralize
- obliterate
- off
- poison
- polish off
- put away
- put to death
- rub out
- sacrifice
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- strangle
- suffocate
- waste
- wipe out
- zap
- asphyxiate
- black out
- bring to screeching halt
- burke
- check
- choke
- choke back
- clam up
- clamp down
- constipate
- cork
- cover up
- crack down
- curb
- dry up
- extinguish
- gag
- hold it down
- hush
- hush up
- kill
- muffle
- muzzle
- put the lid on
- repress
- shut up
- silence
- sit on
- smother
- spike
- squash
- squelch
- stagnate
- stop
- strangle
- stultify
- suffocate
- suppress
- torpedo
- trammel
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