Synonyms for suffocate
ˈsʌf əˌkeɪtsuf·fo·cate

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1. suffocateverb

   Synonyms:
   asphyxiate, stifle

2. suffocateverb

   Synonyms:
   drown

3. suffocateverb

   Synonyms:
   asphyxiate, smother

4. suffocateverb

   Synonyms:
   stifle, asphyxiate

5. suffocateverb

   Synonyms:
   smother

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1. smother, asphyxiate, suffocateverb

   deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing

   "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

   Synonyms:
   choke, stifle, asphyxiate, put out, strangle, repress, smother, surround, muffle, gag

2. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, chokeverb

   impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

   "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

   Synonyms:
   drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, dampen, go, pass, choke off, die, smother, exit, congest, scrag, muffle, stifle

3. suffocate, chokeverb

   become stultified, suppressed, or stifled

   "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"

   Synonyms:
   go, perish, asphyxiate, drop dead, conk, croak, clog up, decease, gag, pass away, cash in one's chips, fret, congest, kick the bucket, throttle, give-up the ghost, clog, exit, choke off, pop off, buy the farm, pass, smother, die, choke, foul, stifle, expire, snuff it, back up, strangle, scrag

4. suffocate, chokeverb

   suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of

   "His job suffocated him"

   Synonyms:
   go, perish, asphyxiate, drop dead, conk, croak, clog up, decease, gag, pass away, cash in one's chips, fret, congest, kick the bucket, throttle, give-up the ghost, clog, exit, choke off, pop off, buy the farm, pass, smother, die, choke, foul, stifle, expire, snuff it, back up, strangle, scrag

5. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiateverb

   be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen

   "The child suffocated under the pillow"

   Synonyms:
   stifle, asphyxiate, gag, muffle, strangle, repress, smother, choke, dampen

6. suffocateverb

   feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air

   "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"

   Synonyms:
   stifle, smother, strangle, asphyxiate, gag, choke

7. gag, choke, strangle, suffocateverb

   struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

   "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

   Synonyms:
   drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, muzzle, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, halter, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, strangulate, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, quip, hamper, go, heave, pass, choke off, cramp, die, smother, exit, congest, scrag, muffle, retch, stifle

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1. choke (verb)

   stop breathing by obstruction of one’s trachea

   the guy choked the assailant with a scarf

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

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1. suffocateverb

   Synonyms:
   stifle, smother, choke, strangle, kill (by stopping respiration)

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1. suffocateverb

   Synonyms:
   choke, stifle, smother, asphyxiate, burke

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1. List of paraphrases for "suffocate":

   stifle, smother, choke, strangle, nip, quell, muffle

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1. Dmytro Kuleba:

   Economically, because of sanctions that will be slammed on Russia immediately. Militarily, because we are not the country that will give up. This is our land, we will be defending it, you see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.

2. June Jordan:

   Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

3. Viktor Orban:

   We are either going to be successful together, or not at all, we are going to expand the country or we will all suffocate in petty, provincial shoving.

4. Marjan Ghadrdan:

   Animals put their heads in the bags and they can't get them off and suffocate, i always cut my potato chip bags so they're not like a little pocket and they can't get their heads inside. AWARE Wildlife Center's mission.

5. Dmytro Kuleba:

   You see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.