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 --
Scottish clubs are being suffocated by the rating system.
We must also ensure that the charitable impulse is not suffocated by rules and regulations.
In state hands, industries are subsidised by taxpayers, suffocated by political and bureaucratic control and denied the chance to compete overseas.
Some immigrants have even been suffocated while hidden in the backs of lorries.
It would be a nice thing to do with an amendment to say that no one individual should be suffocated.
If that can be described as love, the poor people are going to be suffocated with it.
The free market in housing has been suffocated.
The police may be suffocated with good will.
