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- inside the bunker it was suffocating, and some of the men had already passed out
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suffocating
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of suffocating (Entry 2 of 2)
- 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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- garroting
- (or garotting),
- throttling
- croaking
- [slang],
- destroying,
- dispatching,
- doing in,
- felling,
- slaying
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- temporarily suffocated by the seat belt
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- choking,
- garroting
- (or garotting),
- strangling,
- throttling
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- suffocating in the thick, black smoke of the burning building
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“Suffocating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffocating. Accessed 22 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of suffocating was in 1604
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