suffocates in English

verb
1
die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe.
ten detainees suffocated in an airless police cell

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1. Selfishness suffocates spiritual senses.

2. Greed suffocates humanity and intuitive knowledge.

3. An Anaconda is a snake that squeezes and suffocates it’s victim

4. 10 The animal seizes its prey by the throat and suffocates it to death.

5. The very next day, Hazael suffocates the king under a wet “netted cloth” and assumes the kingship.

6. Dependence Begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition