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Suffocate

Suffocated; choked.

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Verb group 8

Asphyxiate 84% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

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Asphyxiate 84% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

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Choke 84% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Choke 84% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Smother 84% connected

To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

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Smother 84% connected

To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Stifle 84% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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Stifle 84% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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Broader term 23

Ache 76% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Become 76% connected

of Become

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Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Croak 76% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

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Dampen 76% connected

To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

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Decease 76% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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Exit 76% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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Expire 76% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Impede 76% connected

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

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Jam 76% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Obstruct 76% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

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Occlude 76% connected

To shut up; to close.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Perish 76% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

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Stifle 76% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Manner of action 1

Strangle 76% connected

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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Derivationally related 8

Asphyxia 74% connected

Alt. of Asphyxy

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Asphyxia 74% connected

Alt. of Asphyxy

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Asphyxiation 74% connected

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

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Asphyxiation 74% connected

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

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Choking 74% connected

of Choke

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Choking 74% connected

of Choke

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Suffocation 74% connected

The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

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Suffocation 74% connected

The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

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Entails 1

Cover 72% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Synonym 6

Asphyxiate 92% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Choke 92% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Gag 92% connected

To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Smother 92% connected

To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Stifle 92% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Strangle 92% connected

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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