suffocate

To kill or destroy by preventing access of air or oxygen.

To impair the breathing of or cause discomfort to by cutting off the supply of fresh air.

To suppress the development, imagination, or creativity of; stifle.

To die from lack of air or oxygen.

To feel discomfort from lack of fresh air.

To become or feel oppressed; be stifled.

Suffocated; choked.

To kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills.

To impede respiration in; compress so as to prevent respiration.

To stifle; smother; extinguish: as, to suffocate fire or live coals.