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To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

Example: Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!

To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.

Example: He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.

To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.

Example: I'm suffocating under this huge workload.

To destroy; to extinguish.

Example: to suffocate fire

Suffocation