suffocate

I’m like, “Well, at least they suffocate their victims. At least it’s not going to rip me apart like a wolf does — because that’s awful. Well, at least that.”

“The smoke was really thick. Everyone started to cough and suffocate. People start to fall and faint,” recalls Sharon.

“When you deny someone oxygen, they suffocate.”

Dredging up the nodules generates clouds of metallic dust on the seafloor that suffocate organisms there.

“They cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death,” she said.