1. (a.) Suffocated; choked.

2. (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

3. (v. t.) To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.

4. (v. i.) To become choked, stifled, or smothered.

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