Vocabulary
Suffocate
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe.
Urdu meaning
گھٹن، دم گھٹنا، حبس دم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- After years of watching Pakistan `suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse`, I have come to understand what former US ambassador to Hungary David Pressman felt.
- Tunnel view: No wonder, our civil-military elites seem surefooted in their efforts to suffocate democracy.
- The circle of religious bigotry is tightening and beginning to suffocate the majority itself.
- Amid this devastation of a fragile ecosystem, constructing new canals upstream for corporate farming will further suffocate the delta, which is a national asset.
- It is simply another attempt to suffocate dissent.
Synonyms
smother, strangle, asphyxiate, strangulate, stifle; choke; throttle
Antonyms
breathe,expire, inspire، exhale, inhale
Curator example
“they suffocated in their sleep”
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