Suffocate

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak.

2. To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Suffocated; choked. Shak.