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Suffocate Pronunciation

Pronounce Suffocate as S UW F F OW K AH T EH.

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    Suffocate phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'suffocate'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of suffocate: /suffoʊkætɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of suffocate: /sʊffɒcætɛ/

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    List of meaning for suffocate

    to take the life of someone or something by forcing their air intake to be stopped

    smother, asphyxiate, suffocate(verb)

    deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing

    "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

    suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke(verb)

    impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

    "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

    suffocate, choke(verb)

    become stultified, suppressed, or stifled

    "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"

    suffocate, choke(verb)

    suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of

    "His job suffocated him"

    suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate(verb)

    be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen

    "The child suffocated under the pillow"

    suffocate(verb)

    feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air

    "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"

    gag, choke, strangle, suffocate(verb)

    struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

    "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

    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

    to keep (someone) from breathing by exerting pressure on the windpipe

    temporarily suffocated by the seat belt

    to experience complete or partial blockage of the windpipe

    suffocating in the thick, black smoke of the burning building

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    suffocate in sentence

    1. Detective Phillips noticed the marks around the victim’s neck causing him to believe that the man did suffocate by strangulation.

    2. Warning labels can be seen on many children’s blankets since they could suffocate if the fabric gets trapped around their mouths.

    3. When the victim’s face turned blue, it was obvious to the nurse that he did suffocate from the pillow being placed over his face.

    4. In the house fire many people do not die from being burned, but they suffocate from smoke inhalation.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term suffocate

    Even in the eye of the hurricane of adversity that the enemy conceived to suffocate us, the Cuban economy can grow slightly, thanks to the fact that we have the potential to resist and continue advancing in our development.

    – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel

    Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

    – June Jordan

    We are either going to be successful together, or not at all, we are going to expand the country or we will all suffocate in petty, provincial shoving.

    – Viktor Orban

    We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

    – Anthon St Maarten

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