Suffocate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Suffocated; choked.

II. Suffocate ·vi To become choked, stifled, or smothered.

III. Suffocate ·vt To Destroy; to Extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.

IV. Suffocate ·vt To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to Stifle; to Smother.