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verb (suffocat, ing)
  1. (intransitive) To suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
  2. (intransitive) To die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
  3. (context, intransitive, figurative) To be overwhelmed by a person or issue, surrounded as though being deprived of oxygen.
  4. (transitive) To cause someone to suffer severly reduced oxygen supply to his body.
  5. (transitive) To kill a person or creature by deprive, depriving it of sufficient oxygen intake.
  6. (context, transitive, figurative) To make weary with excessive and prolonged contact, as though depriving of oxygen.
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