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SUF'FOCATE, v.t. [L. suffoco; sub and focus, or its root.]

1. To choke or kill by stopping respiration. Respiration may be stopped by the interception of air, as in hanging and strangling, or by the introduction of smoke, dust or mephitic air into the lungs. Men may be suffocated by the halter; or men may be suffocated in smoke or in carbonic acid gas, as in mines and wells.

And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.

2. To stifle; to destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire or live coals.

A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage.

SUF'FOCATE, a. Suffocated.

1913 Definition
Suffocate (suffocate)
a.(?)
Suf"fo*cate
[L. suffocatus, p. p. of suffocare to choke; sub under + fauces the throat. Cf. Faucal.]
  1. Suffocated; choked.
    Shak.
  2. To choke or kill by stopping respiration] to stifle; to smother.

    Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak.

  3. To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
  4. To become choked, stifled, or smothered.
    "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.
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