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The correct spelling is suffocated.
How to pronounce suffocated
verb
Say it like: Suf-foc-ate-d
The correct spelling is suffocated. To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body. For example: "Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!"
Usage Examples
“Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!”
“He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.”
“I'm suffocating under this huge workload.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- 2.To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- 3.To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- 4.To destroy; to extinguish.
adjective
- 1.Having died as a result of suffocation.
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