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▪ I. † ˈsuffocate, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs.
Also 5–6 -at.
[ad. L. suffōcātus, pa. pple. of suffōcāre (see next).]
1. Suffocated by deprivation of air.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 267 In whech first day the duke of Gloucetir was suffocat at Caleys. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 152 The moonkey..helde hym so fast aboute the throte, that he was suffocate. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. i. 124 For Suffolkes Duke, may he be suffocate. 1632Lithgow Trav. iv. 148 Pilgrimes were often suffocate to death.
2. Smothered, overwhelmed.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. i. xii. in Ashm. (1652) 132 In mynd..bare thys, That never thyne Erth wyth Water be suffocate. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 48 The wedes had suffocat and destroyed his corne. 1584Cogan Haven Health ccxiv. (1636) 229 In a cold stomack the little heat is suffocate with grosse meate. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 125 This Chaos, when Degree is suffocate, Followes the choaking.
▪ II. suffocate, v.|ˈsʌfəkeɪt|
[f. L. suffōcāt-, pa. ppl. stem of suffōcāre, f. suf- = sub- 1 + faucēs throat.]
1. trans. To kill (a person or animal) by stopping the supply of air through the lungs, gills, or other respiratory organs.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 231/2 Ether in his mothers bodye, or els in the birth it might be suffocatede. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 44 Others inverted..and a fire being underneath, were so smoaked and suffocated to death. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xxxviii. §11 (1689) 248 Fishes are suffocated in Waters if they be..frozen. 1791E. Inchbald Simple Story III. ii. 16 Half suffocated with the loss of breath. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 488 The violent irritation and spasm..which so often suffocate children. 1817Byron Beppo xvii, A Husband whom mere suspicion could inflame To suffocate a wife. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. xii. 465 To suffocate a frog it is sufficient to keep its mouth open.
2. To interrupt or impede respiration in (a person); to stifle, choke. † Also, to throttle (the windpipe), stifle (the breath).
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. vi. 45 Let not Hempe his Windpipe suffocate. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 72 The night⁓mare; which..makes men think they are invaded, oppressed and suffocated with great weight. 1784Cowper Task ii. 819 Ev'ry plague that can infest Society..meets the eye, the ear, And suffocates the breath at ev'ry turn. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 27, I am suffocated in this crowd. 1848Dickens Dombey l, He had like to have suffocated himself with this pleasantry. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xxii. 418 The soldiers were suffocated with sorrow.
3. To destroy as if by the exclusion of air; to smother, overwhelm, extinguish.
a. something material or physical.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xii. vi. 223 Manie lewd persons..with incantations..doo..extinguish, suffocate, and spoile all vineyards, ortchards, medowes [etc.]. 1614T. Adams Diuells Banket iii. 109 The thicke spumy mists, which vapour vp from the..earth, doe often suffocate the brighter aire. 1652French Yorksh. Spaw iv. 46 The use of cold baths is not..for old men, because that little heat which they have is thereby suffocated. 1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 122 By distillation..it [sc. acid of Vinegar] may be freed..from the great quantity of water which in a manner suffocates it. 1793Trans. Soc. Arts V. 54 The plants..will suffocate every kind of weed near them. 1797Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 421 A mass sufficiently thick to suffocate the whole of the light which enters it. 1807J. Barlow Columb. ii. 330 His fleet high flaming suffocates the skies. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 386 The roots are suffocated and rotted from their delicacy.
b. something immaterial, esp. a mental attribute.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 76 b, Labour..to expell the same venym..or..to suffocate or smere it within y⊇. c1550Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 720 Thay wald him mak sum aid,..Or his sorrow in sum part suffocat. 1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial 39 It being a meere artifice..to suffocate the truth. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 257 The being inveigled in idolatrous Worship does not quite suffocate and dead that Divine sense. 1749Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §1. 44 Blood and Serum..lying in the Ventricles, suffocate Sensations. 1868Milman St. Paul's vi. 112 That..superstition which..had suffocated the higher truths of religion.
4. intr. To become stifled or choked. rare.
1702De Foe Mock Mourners (ed. 3) 77 Convulsions follow, and such Vapours rise, The Constitution Suffocates and Dies. 1730Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 449 The Disease continued so obstinate, and the Patient so like to suffocate, that [etc.]. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 237/2, I suffocate in a stuffy room. 1888Daily News 9 July 5/7 Whilst he was suffocating he remained calm and still.
Hence ˈsuffocated ppl. a., ˈsuffocating vbl. n.
1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 23 Death is a suffocating and quenching of the naturall heate of the body. 1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. v. xi. §4 As the suffocated materials were now gradually consumed. 1793Beddoes Scurvy, etc. 50 In suffocated animals the left cavities of the heart are full of venous blood. 1898G. B. Shaw Plays II. Candida 148 In a suffocated voice. |