suffocate means suffocated, choked. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.
suffocate is pronounced /ˈsʌfəkət/.
Etymology
The adjective is first attested in the 1420s, the verb in 1526; from Middle English suffocat(e) (“deprived of air, suffocated”), borrowed from Latin suffōcātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin suffōcō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from sub- (“under, up to”) + fōx (“throat”, oblique stem in fōc-). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
adj
- Suffocated, choked.
- Smothered, overwhelmed.“This chaos, when degree is suffocate, follows the choking”
verb
- To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.“Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!”
- To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.“He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.”
- To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.“I'm suffocating under this huge workload.”
- To destroy; to extinguish.“to suffocate fire”