What is another word for suffocate?
Synonyms for suffocate
ˈsʌf əˌkeɪtsuf·fo·cate
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Wiktionary
suffocateverb
Synonyms:
asphyxiate, stiflesuffocateverb
Synonyms:
drownsuffocateverb
Synonyms:
asphyxiate, smothersuffocateverb
Synonyms:
stifle, asphyxiatesuffocateverb
Synonyms:
smother
Princeton's WordNet
smother, asphyxiate, suffocateverb
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
"Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
Synonyms:
choke, stifle, asphyxiate, put out, strangle, repress, smother, surround, muffle, gagsuffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, chokeverb
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
Synonyms:
drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, dampen, go, pass, choke off, die, smother, exit, congest, scrag, muffle, stiflesuffocate, chokeverb
become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
"He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
Synonyms:
go, perish, asphyxiate, drop dead, conk, croak, clog up, decease, gag, pass away, cash in one's chips, fret, congest, kick the bucket, throttle, give-up the ghost, clog, exit, choke off, pop off, buy the farm, pass, smother, die, choke, foul, stifle, expire, snuff it, back up, strangle, scragsuffocate, chokeverb
suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
"His job suffocated him"
Synonyms:
go, perish, asphyxiate, drop dead, conk, croak, clog up, decease, gag, pass away, cash in one's chips, fret, congest, kick the bucket, throttle, give-up the ghost, clog, exit, choke off, pop off, buy the farm, pass, smother, die, choke, foul, stifle, expire, snuff it, back up, strangle, scragsuffocate, stifle, asphyxiateverb
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
"The child suffocated under the pillow"
Synonyms:
stifle, asphyxiate, gag, muffle, strangle, repress, smother, choke, dampensuffocateverb
feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
"The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
gag, choke, strangle, suffocateverb
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
Synonyms:
drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, muzzle, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, halter, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, strangulate, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, quip, hamper, go, heave, pass, choke off, cramp, die, smother, exit, congest, scrag, muffle, retch, stifle
Editors Contribution
choke (verb)
stop breathing by obstruction of one’s trachea
the guy choked the assailant with a scarf
Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
suffocateverb
Synonyms:
choke, stifle, smother, asphyxiate, burke
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#123 | go | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1763 | die | |
#3227 | exit | |
#8297 | surround | |
#9718 | foul | |
#12429 | gag | |
#12853 | expire | |
#13617 | nip | |
#16912 | throttle | |
#21204 | choke | |
#21226 | halter | |
#23611 | hamper | |
#24176 | drown | |
#27090 | fret | |
#27773 | smother | |
#27826 | perish | |
#30189 | clog | |
#33249 | muzzle | |
#43067 | stifle | |
#44779 | cramp | |
#51445 | dampen | |
#53507 | heave | |
#53900 | quell | |
#56041 | repress | |
#60869 | strangle | |
#67495 | quip | |
#73790 | croak | |
#82036 | suffocate | |
#92888 | decease | |
#115405 | muffle | |
#166458 | conk | |
#175654 | retch | |
#299464 | congest |
How to use suffocate in a sentence?
Animals put their heads in the bags and they can't get them off and suffocate, i always cut my potato chip bags so they're not like a little pocket and they can't get their heads inside. AWARE Wildlife Center's mission.
Economically, because of sanctions that will be slammed on Russia immediately. Militarily, because we are not the country that will give up. This is our land, we will be defending it, you see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel:
Even in the eye of the hurricane of adversity that the enemy conceived to suffocate us, the Cuban economy can grow slightly, thanks to the fact that we have the potential to resist and continue advancing in our development.
spent some time gittin juiced on the junk you know and the poems would come thick and black, coffeelike, a little bitter you know and when the pores started jiving and all it'd be time to git on down and groove, let the words flow forth, try not to suffocate, live one more day.
You see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.
Translations for suffocate
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- خنقArabic
- ofegar, ofegar-se, ofagar, sufocarCatalan, Valencian
- dusit se, dusit, udusit seCzech
- kvæle, kvælesDanish
- ersticken, würgenGerman
- πνίγομαιGreek
- sufokigi, sufokiEsperanto
- sofocar, ahogarSpanish
- tukehduttaa, tukehtuaFinnish
- suffoquer, étoufferFrench
- נחנק, חנקHebrew
- fullad, fuldoklik, megfullad, megfojtHungarian
- 窒息Japanese
- dusićPolish
- sufocarPortuguese
- hiq'ipayQuechua
- удуши́ть, задуши́ть, задыха́ться, задохну́ться, души́тьRussian
- ugúšiti, угу́шитиSerbo-Croatian
- kvävas, kvävaSwedish
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