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suffocation
1. The state of being choked by obstruction of air passages by drowning, smothering, throttling, or inhalation of noxious gases.
2. The prevention of breathing, usually by the obstruction of the nose, mouth, or trachaea.
2. The prevention of breathing, usually by the obstruction of the nose, mouth, or trachaea.
Synonyms include:
- Asphyxiation, smothering, stifling; choking, strangulation, garroting.
- To suppress, to quell, to put down, to subdue, to overcome, to extinguish, to dampen, to snuff out.
This entry is located in the following units:
-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation)
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sub-, suc-, suf-, sug-, sum-, sup-, sur-, sus-, su-
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