How to pronounce “suffocate”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (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.
• (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
• (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
• [Adjective]
• (obsolete, as a participle) Suffocated, choked.
• (obsolete) Smothered, overwhelmed.

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