- Asphyxiate - Gag - Strangle - Struggle for breath - Suffocate - To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or
squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. - To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to
block up.
- Asphyxiate - Muffle eccentric mothers - Stifle - Suffocate - Take away breath - To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of
the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent
breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. - To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of
air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to
smother a fire.