Home › Words › U › unsuffocateunsuffocateunsuffocate means to unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.EtymologyFrom un- + suffocate.verbTo unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.e.g.“And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis:” — 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan in sixteen cantos:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).