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Suffocating
[suhf-uh-keyt] 
| Main Entry: |
suffocate
[suhf-uh-keyt]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, drown, smother, stifle, strangle |
| Antonyms: | free, let go, loose |
| Main Entry: | choke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | smother, block |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, bar, check, clog, close, congest, constrict, dam, die, drown, fill, gag, garrote, gasp, gibbet, kill, noose, obstruct, occlude, overpower, retard, squeeze, stifle, stop, stopper, strangle, strangulate, stuff, stunt, suffocate, suppress, throttle, wring |
| Antonyms: | release, unblock, unconstrict |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oppressive, humid |
| Synonyms: | airless, breathless, choky, confined, fusty, heavy, moldy, motionless, muggy, musty, stagnant, stale, stale-smelling, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, sweltering, sweltry, thick, tight, uncomfortable, unventilated |
| Antonyms: | cool, dry |
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; stop living |
| Synonyms: | be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk, croak, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate |
| Antonyms: | be born, begin, live |
| Main Entry: | drown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid; submerge and die |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, knock over, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, whelm, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | float, rescue, save |
| Main Entry: | extinguish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put out a fire |
| Synonyms: | blot out, blow out, choke, douse, drown, out, quench, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, trample |
| Antonyms: | light |
| Main Entry: | go under |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail, submerge |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, default, die, drown, fall, fold, founder, go down, sink, submerse, submit, succumb, suffocate, surrender |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, succeed |
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deprive of existence; destroy |
| Synonyms: | X-out, annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with, do in, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, garrote, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, immolate, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out, zap |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot and humid |
| Synonyms: | airless, close, heavy, muggy, overpowering, steam bath, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, sweat box, torrid |
| Antonyms: | cool, mild, temperate |
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