- Types Of Speech
- You can use suffocate as a verb in a sentence.
- About Suffocate
- A 3 syllables verb and 9 letters with the letters a, c, e, f, o, s, t, and u, 5 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter o. Suffocate starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters s, su, suf, suff, suffo, and the ending characters are e, te, ate, cate, ocate, . Suffocate is also a double consonant (ff) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Suffocate is set as a sat word that starts with s, ends with e, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 9 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Suffocate in Pig Latin is said as "uffocatesay or uffocatesway".
- Unigram
- s | u | f | f | o | c | a | t | e
- Bigram
- su | uf | ff | fo | oc | ca | at | te
- Trigram
- suf | uff | ffo | foc | oca | cat | ate
- Quadrigram
- suff | uffo | ffoc | foca | ocat | cate
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- struggle for breath;
have insufficient oxygen intake;
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" - feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air;
"The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating" - be asphyxiated;
die from lack of oxygen;
"The child suffocated under the pillow" - suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of;
"His job suffocated him" - become stultified, suppressed, or stifled;
"He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of;
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" - 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"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abbreviate | shorten "Abbreviate `New York'' and write `NY''" |
| Accelerator | a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine |
| Anaesthetise | make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation" |
| Anaesthetize | make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation" |
| Anesthetise | make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation" |
| Anesthetize | make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation" |
| Annihilate | kill in large numbers "the plague wiped out an entire population" |
| Arrest | the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar" |
| Asphyxiate | be asphyxiated die from lack of oxygen "The child suffocated under the pillow" |
| Assure | be careful or certain to do something make certain of something "He verified that the valves were closed" "See that the curtains are closed" "control the quality of the product" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Suffocate
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Suffocate | struggle for breath have insufficient oxygen intake "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" |
View English words with the unique letters used in suffocate. Words With The Letters Acefostu
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Asphyxiation | killing by depriving of oxygen |
| Choking | the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" |
| Suffocation | killing by depriving of oxygen |
Suffocate Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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