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.
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Sheppard, Turpin, pleading with black tongue This viler thief's unsuffocated breath!
From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Hall Caine