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to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable air
the law requires the owner of a discarded refrigerator to remove its door so that a child won't get trapped inside and suffocate
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Recent Examples of suffocated
Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2025
Additionally, soil that is constantly wet can become compacted, which the horticulturist says could reduce its ability to drain properly leading to suffocated roots that are unable to expand properly.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
Since Ibsen wrote the suffocated aristocrat with her poison tongue into existence 135 years ago, titans of theatre have grappled with Gabler.
—Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 29 Oct. 2025
Police arrived minutes later and the siblings soon learned that their younger brother Joey, 9, had been suffocated with a plastic bag and their 11-year-old sister Josephine had been hanged from a rafter in the basement.
—Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Nelson beat Arlington pastor Clinton Dobson and suffocated him with a plastic bag.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2025
Bouncing back from a brutal day at Florida last week, the Horns suffocated Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer (20 of 38 for 202 yards), sacking him five times and picking him thrice.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
The real innovation being stifled today is the innovation that’ll never bloom, suffocated by vertical integration and acquisitions disguised as partnerships.
—Asad Ramzanali, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Denver comes into the game with a fantastic defense that completely suffocated Jake Browning and the Cincinnati Bengals.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Travis Decker, the man believed to have suffocated and abandoned his three young daughters at a campsite in the Washington state wilderness, is dead, Chelan County authorities said Thursday.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Decker had been the subject of a three-month manhunt after his daughters were found suffocated in June at a campground near Leavenworth.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
The videos, which were shared online, showed baby monkeys being crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled and mutilated.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2025
Additionally, soil that is constantly wet can become compacted, which the horticulturist says could reduce its ability to drain properly leading to suffocated roots that are unable to expand properly.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
Since Ibsen wrote the suffocated aristocrat with her poison tongue into existence 135 years ago, titans of theatre have grappled with Gabler.
—Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
As the Netflix series often attempted to bring light to the real mistreatment faced by incarcerated people, Poussey’s death at the hands of a police officer who suffocated her was intended to shed light on the real police brutality Black inmates in particular face.
—Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 29 Oct. 2025
Police arrived minutes later and the siblings soon learned that their younger brother Joey, 9, had been suffocated with a plastic bag and their 11-year-old sister Josephine had been hanged from a rafter in the basement.
—Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Nelson beat Arlington pastor Clinton Dobson and suffocated him with a plastic bag.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2025
Bouncing back from a brutal day at Florida last week, the Horns suffocated Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer (20 of 38 for 202 yards), sacking him five times and picking him thrice.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
The real innovation being stifled today is the innovation that’ll never bloom, suffocated by vertical integration and acquisitions disguised as partnerships.
—Asad Ramzanali, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Denver comes into the game with a fantastic defense that completely suffocated Jake Browning and the Cincinnati Bengals.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Travis Decker, the man believed to have suffocated and abandoned his three young daughters at a campsite in the Washington state wilderness, is dead, Chelan County authorities said Thursday.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Decker had been the subject of a three-month manhunt after his daughters were found suffocated in June at a campground near Leavenworth.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suffocated
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During the previous school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and pulled up a female classmate’s dress and touched her inappropriately on the school playground, the lawsuit claims.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Their conversation eventually turned violent, leading Packer to call the police after Sweeney had strangled Dunne to the point of unconsciousness.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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During the previous school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and pulled up a female classmate’s dress and touched her inappropriately on the school playground, the lawsuit claims.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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From long before dawn until well past dark, similar rafts choked the river, packed with as many as 20 migrants per raft.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Katy Puig vomited a gush of seawater as a boater hoisted her unconscious body out of the water, fighting the current to get her to a yacht that had come to the rescue before first responders arrived in a flotilla.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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This agitprop is vomited out 24/7 by Democrat media apparatchiks who were also unerringly described by Orwell in his novel 1984.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Authorities said Winstead's 3-month old baby drowned in a motel bathtub in Louisville on New Year's Day.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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When the bodies of the drowned are retrieved, they’re sent to Alexandroupoli to be identified.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Crackle, fizz, pop, extinguished.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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With all these no-shows this year, shouldn’t City Hall reach out in the spirit of bipartisanship and extend an invite to the extinguished solon Tran?—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The story of damped harmonic systems goes back to 1900, when British physicist Horace Lamb built a simple mathematical model of a particle vibrating inside a solid.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Suffocated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffocated. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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