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suffocate

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To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

  • Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!

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The word 'suffocate' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe feeling or being overwhelmed and a lack of fresh air or space, or to describe someone or something that feels or is crushed and unable to move. For example, "She felt suffocated by the oppressive heat of the crowded room."

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Or that a dress my mum liked me to wear would suffocate me as it was pulled over my head.

I know the sadness must feel overwhelming, as if you might suffocate from it.

Sergei Lukashevsky, director of the Sakharov Centre, which is named after the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and aims to continue his work of defending human rights, said the laws were an attempt to suffocate opposition.

Vicente del Bosque was miffed about Spain's latest outing, a narrow victory over Belarus, and urged his team to be more audacious in their search for goals to kill off games, rather than possession to suffocate it.

Suffocate the fireworks.

One is the not-yet-complete barrier that the Israelis have been building to stop Palestinians entering Israel from the West Bank; it cuts deep into Palestinian territory in order to protect Jewish settlements there and is fencing Palestinians into shrinking enclaves in which a Palestinian state would suffocate.

His own media assets, allied to Globo's, provided sympathetic coverage, and received most of the state government's advertising.In this section War comes to the cities Known devil v unknown devil Menem's dates The dinosaurs suffocate The mighty, fallen Reprints Related items Banking in Brazil: Down to the rootsMay 31st 2001Mr Magalhaes's fall has been swift.

Yet they may be helping to suffocate it by employing most of the best South Sudanese workers at inflated wages.

Apple's two stores in central Paris nestle in locations that are dear to French hearts—under the Louvre and directly opposite the Opéra.But the love affair is fading in official circles at any rate as concern grows that the technology giant's market grip threatens to suffocate a business in which French entrepreneurs have been successful: designing applications for mobile devices.

Ploughing a field full of locust eggs can suffocate the pests.

They must build critical thinkers with the ability to make decisions that benefit all stakeholders, not just themselves.The leadership we need cannot afford to be timid: too little, too late and we play to those who would suffocate innovation and entrepreneurship in a welter of regulation.

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