transitive. To suffocate, smother.

To suffocate, stifle, choke, kill.

transitive. In wider sense: To kill by stoppage of breath; to smother, suffocate, choke. Now rare.

transitive. To lie over or on top of (a child, etc.) so as to cause suffocation; to smother by lying on. Cf. overlay, v. 7a. Now rare.

To smother by lying upon, to overlie.

transitive. To prevent the passage of by blocking the channel or outlet. to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) of: to prevent the respiration…

transitive. To lie over or on top of so as to suffocate (a child, etc.); to smother by lying on; = overlie, v. 2a. Now rare and archaic.

transitive. To choke (a person); to suffocate, stifle. Also intransitive: to choke; to vomit, retch.

transitive. To smother, suffocate. Obsolete.

transitive. To suffocate, drown.

transitive. To kill by stopping respiration; to kill or deprive of consciousness (a person or animal) by covering the mouth and nose, by depriving of…

transitive. To smother, stifle, suffocate; esp. to deprive of life by suffocation.

To suffocate by the prevention of breathing; to deprive of life by suffocation. (Frequently in passive without implication of personal agency.) Also…

transitive. To kill (a person or animal) by stopping the supply of air through the lungs, gills, or other respiratory organs.

To affect with asphyxia, to suffocate.

To asphyxiate. (Chiefly in past participle.)