Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffocate \Suf"fo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suffocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Suffocating.]
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To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.
--Shak. To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
Wiktionary
Of someone or something that has died as a result of suffocation. v
(en-past of: suffocate)
Usage examples of "suffocated".
Instead of using it, they had kept it for me, and while they were being suffocated, they gave me life drop by drop.
Madelyn was barefoot and in another thin gown much like the one she'd worn the night before, and she got that dwarfed, suffocated feeling again, sensing him so close behind her.
It was obvious that he thought that it had suffocated when trying to flee and that she finished condemning until death as punishment reason why had done to him.
We might be suffocated before the Nautilus could regain the surface of the waves?
When I returned on board, I was nearly suffocated by the carbonic acid with which the air was filled—ah!
What was the good of digging if I must be suffocated, crushed by the water that was turning into stone?
Instead of using it, they had kept it for me, and, while they were being suffocated, they gave me life, drop by drop.
Burke and Hare, the Edinburgh body-snatchers, suffocated their victims and sold the corpses to the medical school for about £7 each.
She had not inhaled smoke so it seemed conceivable that she had been suffocated before the fire began.
But they got her drunk again, and Hare suffocated her, while Burke held her legs.
So in England, the ideals of anarchism faded away gently, suffocated by the British failure to take them seriously.
What was the good of digging if I must be suffocated, crushed by the water that was turning into stone—a punishment that the ferocity of the savages even would not have invented!
They would sit on the porch, suffocated by the oregano and the roses, he reading and she sewing lace cuffs, indifferent to the shocks and bad news of the war, until the mosquitoes made them take refuge in the parlor.
The waves of lucidity that were so scarce during the rains became more frequent after August, when an and wind began to blow and suffocated the rose bushes and petrified the piles of mud, and ended up scattering over Macondo the burning dust that covered the rusted zinc roofs and the age-old almond trees forever.
In a short time they did more damage than the red ants: they destroyed the furniture in the parlor, in their madness they tore to shreds the hammock that had resisted the sad bivouac loves of Colonel Aureliano Buendía and they disemboweled the mattresses and emptied them on the floor as they suffocated in storms of cotton.