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suffocation|sʌfəˈkeɪʃən|
Also 6 -cion.
[ad. L. suffōcātio-, -ōnem, n. of action f. suffōcāre to suffocate. Cf. F. suffocation]
The act of suffocating or condition of being suffocated.
a1577Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. ii. xxiii. (1589) 95 He..that violently commeth to his death, whether it bee by knife, poison, cord, drowning, burning, suffocation, or otherwise. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. v. 119 It was a miracle to scape suffocation. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 190 They..that..surcharge their bodies with ouer-much meat..incurre suddaine and perilous suffocations. 1737Whiston Josephus, Antiq. vi. viii. §2 Some..demoniacal disorders..brought upon him such suffocations as were ready to choke him. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xiii, Departing quietly by suffocation, like your ancestors before you. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. xxiv, The large ball room..was crammed to suffocation. 1875A. S. Taylor Poisons (ed. 3) 107 A lady who had been rendered unconscious by chloroform died from suffocation, as a result of the food finding its way into the air passages.
b. transf. and fig.
1567Fenton Trag. Disc. i. (1898) I. 76 To dye afore my tyme by suffocacion of pynnynge dollour. 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. iii. 150 The suffocation of heat. 1744Phil. Trans. XLIII. 130 Blackness is brought on, by an Extinction or Suffocation of those same mixed Rays. 1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2) §893 Suffocation [in plants]. Sometimes it happens that the pores of the epidermis are closed up, and transpiration consequently obstructed. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iv. iv, Is it not..the very murkiness, and atmospheric suffocation, that brings the lightning?
†c. [medical L. suffocatio hysterica or uterina.] In full suffocation of the womb, matrix, mother (see mother n.1 12 b), bairn's bed (see bairn Comb.): hysteria. Obs.
1549Compl. Scot. vi. 67 Muguart, that is gude for the suffocatione of ane vomans bayrnis hed [read bed]. 1578Lyte Dodoens 19 The same is good against the Suffocation of the Matrix (that is the stopping and hardnesse of the Mother). 1603E. Jorden (title), A Briefe Discovrse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 652 The fat of a sheep..cureth the suffocation of the womb. 1719Quincey Lex. Physico-Med. (1722), Suffocation, Choaking. This is used in Hysterick Cases, wherein the Uterus is imagined to be..as it were suffocated with ill Humours. |