Synonyms of the word

suffocate

• v. (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
• v. (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
• v. (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen…
• v. (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
• adj. (obsolete) Suffocated; choked.

asphyxiate

• v. (transitive) To smother or suffocate someone.
• v. (intransitive) To be smothered or suffocated.

become

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
• v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
• v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
• v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
• v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

block

• n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
• n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
• n. A residential building consisting of flats.
• n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
• n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
• n. (slang) The human head.
• n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
• n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
• n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
• n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
• n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
• n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for…
• n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present…
• n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
• n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball,…
• n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum…
• n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s…
• n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
• n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
• n. (Britain) Solitary confinement.
• n. A cellblock.
• n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
• n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
• n. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
• n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
• n. (cricket) A blockhole.
• n. (cricket) The popping crease.
• n. Misspelling of bloc.
• v. (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
• v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
• v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
• v. (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
• v. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

choke

• v. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other…
• v. (transitive) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
• v. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
• v. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
• v. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at…
• v. (intransitive) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially…
• v. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
• v. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
• v. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
• v. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
• n. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
• n. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
• n. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
• n. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
• n. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
• n. (electronics) choking coil.
• n. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

conk

• n. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom…
• n. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
• n. Alternative spelling of conch.
• v. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.
• n. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
• v. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

croak

• n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
• n. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit).
• n. The cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
• v. (intransitive) To make a croak.
• v. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
• v. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
• v. (slang) To die.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
• v. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

dampen

• v. (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
• v. (transitive) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
• v. (intransitive) To become damp; to deaden.

decease

• n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
• v. (now rare) To die.

die

• v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
• v. (transitive) To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
• v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
• v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
• v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
• v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
• v. (transitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
• v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved…
• v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
• v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
• n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
• n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
• n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.).
• n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
• n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
• n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
• n. Any small cubical or square body.
• n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
• n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
• n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
• n. Obsolete spelling of dye.
• v. Obsolete spelling of dye.

exit

• n. A way out.
• n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
• n. The action of leaving.
• n. Death.
• v. To go out.
• v. To leave.
• v. To die.

expire

• v. (intransitive) to die.
• v. (intransitive) to become invalid.
• v. (intransitive) to exhale; to breathe (out).
• v. (transitive) to exhale (something).
• v. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
• v. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.

feel

• v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
• v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
• v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
• v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
• v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
• n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
• n. A vague mental impression.
• n. An act of fondling.
• n. A vague understanding.
• n. An intuitive ability.
• n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
• pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
• adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
• adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.

gag

• n. A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto…
• n. (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
• n. A joke or other mischievous prank.
• n. A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
• n. (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
• v. (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
• v. (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
• v. (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
• v. (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

impede

• v. (transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.

jam

• n. A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used…
• n. (countable) A difficult situation.
• n. (countable) Blockage, congestion.
• n. (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
• n. (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
• n. (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
• n. (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
• n. (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
• n. (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
• n. (Britain, slang) luck.
• n. (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
• v. To get something stuck in a confined space.
• v. To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
• v. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
• v. To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
• v. (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
• v. (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
• v. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
• v. (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
• v. (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
• n. (dated) A kind of frock for children.
• n. (mining) Alternative form of jamb.

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

obstruct

• v. To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.
• v. To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder: obstructed my progress.
• v. To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.

obturate

• v. To block up or obstruct.

occlude

• v. To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

perish

• v. (intransitive) To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
• v. (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish.

smother

• v. (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or…
• v. (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
• v. (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle;…
• v. (transitive) In cookery: to cook in a close dish.
• v. (transitive) To daub or smear.
• v. (intransitive) To be suffocated.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping,…
• v. (intransitive) Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
• v. (intransitive) Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled;…
• v. (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
• v. (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When…
• n. That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly.

stifle

• n. A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
• n. (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt or cut off.
• v. (transitive) To repress, keep in or hold back.
• v. (transitive) To smother or suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To feel smothered etc.
• v. (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
• v. (transitive) To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

strangle

• v. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate…
• v. (transitive) To stifle or suppress an action.
• v. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
• v. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.