Synonyms: choke, gag, suffocate, strangle
Definition: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
Usage: he swallowed a fishbone and gagged
Synonyms: suffocate
Definition: feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
Usage: The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating
Similar words: feel
Definition: be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
Usage: My cold is gone--I feel fine today; She felt tired after the long hike; She felt sad after her loss
Synonyms: stifle, suffocate, asphyxiate
Definition: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
Usage: The child suffocated under the pillow
Similar words: snuff it, buy the farm, choke, cash in one's chips, pop off, kick the bucket, give-up the ghost, go, pass, pass away, perish, die, decease, conk, drop dead, croak, exit, expire
Definition: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Usage: She died from cancer; The children perished in the fire; The patient went peacefully; The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Definition: suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
Usage: His job suffocated him
Definition: become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
Usage: He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village
Definition: undergo a change or development
Usage: The water turned into ice; Her former friend became her worst enemy; He turned traitor
Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate, asphyxiate
Definition: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
Usage: The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
Similar words: jam, close up, block, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude
Definition: block passage through
Usage: obstruct the path
Synonyms: smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
Definition: deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
Usage: Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow; The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor
Similar words: kill
Definition: cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
Usage: This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank; The farmer killed a pig for the holidays