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Word: suffocate
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Meaning:
Verb:
- intransitive|figurative To be overwhelmed by a person or issue, surrounded as though being deprived of oxygen.
- transitive|figurative To make weary with excessive and prolonged contact, as though depriving of oxygen.
- intransitive To die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- intransitive To suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- transitive To cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body.
- transitive To depriving it of sufficient oxygen intake.
Source: Wiktionary
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