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Suffocated; choked. Shak.

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

In a state of asphyxia; suffocated.

der unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant. Quain. A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping. Chaucer.

To suffocate; to choke. [Prov. Eng.]

To suffocate or stifle; to smother. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

To smother; to suffocate; to choke. [Obs.] Holinshed. Palsgrave.

To suffocate or smother. [Written also smore.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir T. More. Burns.

deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.

into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room. Swift.…

To be stifled or suffocated.

To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner. Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes Shak.

from Suffocate, v. -- Suf"fo*ca`ting*ly, adv.

The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated. [R.] Throttle their practiced accent in their fears. Shak.