suffocate
verb (used with object)
to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
suffocative
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a word derived from
suffocate.
Example Sentences
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In certain epidemics orthopnoea and suffocative attacks were very common.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
—Tugby's almost apoplectic reply was delicious, no doubt, in its suffocative delivery.
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent
They are liable to suffocative orthopnœa after measles, and die unless bled and purged.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott
Excessive length of the frenum is occasionally met with, and in children may allow of the tongue falling back into the throat and causing sudden suffocative attacks, one of which may prove fatal.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
This may very possibly, as happened in one case to the author, give rise to suffocative paroxysms from its pressure on the recurrent laryngeal nerves.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
