All suffocate synonyms

verb suffocate

• bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
• corked — (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
• drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
• clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
• burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
• dry up — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• constipate — to cause constipation in
• offed — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
• outs — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
• extinguish — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
• burked — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
• constipating — to cause constipation in; make costive.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
• burking — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
• corking — excellent
• gibbet — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
• die — When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
• hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
• gibbeting — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
• garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• breathe one's last — When someone breathes their last, they die.
• clam up — If someone clams up, they stop talking, often because they are shy or to avoid giving away secrets.
• go under — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• demised — death or decease.
• garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• demising — death or decease.
• whelm — to submerge; engulf.
• knock over — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
• give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
• offing — the state or fact of being off.
• gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• blow out — If you blow out a flame or a candle, you blow at it so that it stops burning.