Suffocated; choked. Shak.
To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak.
To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.
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