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Suffocating [suhf-uh-keyt]
Main Entry:
suffocate [suhf-uh-keyt]
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
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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