suffocate
Example Sentences
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“Take advantage of the time you have ahead of you to understand risk better. Don’t suffocate your portfolio” by allocating too much for income-based investments.
From MarketWatch
"It gets to a point where you're being suffocated and you need to breathe, and I feel this is my way of trying to breathe," Harrison said.
From BBC
These attacks present a new reality for energy markets, already suffocating under the paralysis of the Strait of Hormuz.
“Oh, all right. Thank You for the jammed, crammed, stuffed, packed, suffocating crowds.”
From Literature
She’d probably sent me all the way over to North Figueroa Street to give me a little more time away from those suffocating rooms doing those suffocating tasks.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
