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Keywords: smother, stifle, respiration, pillow, suppress

Suffocated; choked.

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To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

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To become choked, stifled, or smothered.

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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"

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impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

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become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"

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suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"

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be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"

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feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"

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To kill by cutting off the fresh supply of air, water or nutrients; to smother.

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Keywords: polythene, feeder, album, band, song

Suffocate is a track by UK rock band Feeder re-recorded from their 1997 album "Polythene", and was released as an in-between single to bridge the gap between the current album, and it's follow-up.

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Suffocate was the fourth and final single from British rock band Feeder's 1997 album Polythene. It reached #37 in the UK charts, the group's second single to reach the Top 40. The song was re-worked for the single which appears on the The Singles.

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Keywords: fishbone, struggle, insufficient, swallowed, intake

struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

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Keywords: extinguish, destroy, fire

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

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