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Past tense for to have or cause to have difficulty in breathing
“She shuddered remembering the last time she had missed the early bus and how she had had to sit beside some guy wearing so much cologne she thought that she would suffocate from lack of real air.”
Past tense for to kill or die through lack of oxygen, such as by blockage of the air passage
“I couldn't breathe. It got so bad I wondered if I could actually suffocate to death.”
Past tense for to cause or experience an obstruction of one's windpipe, typically by strangling
“He threw himself on me trying to suffocate me, then he collapsed crying. He staggered out to the lounge room blubbering.”
Past tense for to be subjected to stifling heat
“I can't say that my house is freezing. On the contrary, I almost suffocate in the stifling heat.”
Past tense for to suffocate a person's space as if to coerce them into doing something
Past tense for to die through submersion in and inhalation of water
Past tense for to hamper or impede the progress of
Past tense for to murder or assassinate someone
Past tense for to die or cease living
Past tense for to extinguish a flame or fire
Constricted or suffocated due to pressure or lack of air
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