0 past simple and past participle of suffocate
1 to (cause someone to) die because of not having enough oxygen:
2 to prevent something or someone from improving or developing in a positive way
The texts of the plays were so passionately coddled throughout that the subtext got suffocated in the embrace.
On his release he went to her home and suffocated her.
While making sure that devices are safe, useful, effective, and reasonably priced, they also have to ensure that innovation is not suffocated by standardization, regulation, and no-risk policies.
As a result, there is a considerably greater risk of explosions, fires and of people being suffocated.
I was suffocated with the anguish of it all.
It will be no more than a token if it is suffocated beneath general policing methods which amount to a direct contradiction of it.
Most of these deaths, which could be prevented, are clearly due to having a baby in bed and it being overlaid and suffocated.
The police may be suffocated with good will.
