1 to die because there is no air to breathe; to kill sb by not letting them breathe air:
[V] Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars. * [VN] The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire. * He put the pillow over her face and suffocated her. * (figurative) She felt suffocated by all the rules and regulations.
2 [V] (be suffocating) if it is suffocating, it is very hot and there is little fresh air:
Can I open a window? It's suffocating in here!
suffocation noun [U]:
to die from / of suffocation
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