SUFFOCATE

a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Suffocated; choked. Shak.

2.
v.

To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak.

3.
v.

To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.

4.
v.

To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.