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verb
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
noun
- (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
- (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
verb
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- envelop completely
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- form an impenetrable cover over
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
- kill by submerging in water
- get rid of as if by submerging
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
verb
- (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
- (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
- (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
- (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
- (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- reduce the air supply
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
noun
- The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
- A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
- a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
verb
- (intransitive) To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air.
- (transitive) To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
- (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
- remove by suction
- inhale (air, water, etc.)
- pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
adj
noun
- A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
- (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
- A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
- a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds.
- a consonant pronounced with aspiration
verb
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
- get rid of, silence, or suppress
- murder without leaving a trace on the body
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- die from strangulation
noun
noun
- (loosely) Any bag used to commit suicide by suffocation.
- A bag designed to be sealed around a person’s head in order to commit suicide, with a tube or orifice for the introduction of an inert gas.
- Child-resistant packaging for cannabis products, required by law in many U.S. states for customers to carry their merchandise out of a dispensary.
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To drown or suppress.
- (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
- (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
- (transitive, figurative, often in the passive voice) To engulf or overwhelm.
- (transitive, often in the passive voice) To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
- sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- put under water
noun
verb
noun
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- A curve.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a circular segment of a curve
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
verb
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
noun
- A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
- (science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.
- a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia
noun
- (uncountable) Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.
- (countable) A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.
- the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
- killing by depriving of oxygen
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
- (transitive, figurative) To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.
- (transitive) To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
- (transitive) To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
- (transitive) To prevent (light) from passing through.
noun
- (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
- A sycophant, especially a child.
- An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
- (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
- (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
- (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
- (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
- the act of sucking
verb
- (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
- (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
- (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
- draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
- be inadequate or objectionable
- draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- take in, also metaphorically
- give suck to
noun
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- The result of something being choked.
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
adj
verb
noun
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
- (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
- The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
- The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid.
noun
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- Reduction in amount of chemical or other fluid in process such as a heating or ventilation system.
- Reduction in flow rate between two points caused by an intermediate restriction, device, structure or configuration.
- The temporary reduction of bandwidth through a communications network by controlling the package flow rate, in order to minimise congestion.
verb
noun
noun
- a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
- Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen.
- Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.
noun
- (pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.
- an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages
noun
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of artificial respiration.
- (age regression) Initialism of age regression.
- (philately, postal) Initialism of acknowledgment of receipt.
- (aviation) Initialism of aerial refueling.
- (sports, countable) Initialism of area record, best achievement among those by persons from a given continent.
- (meteorology) Initialism of atmospheric river.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of augmented reality.
- (countable, weaponry, informal) An assault rifle or automatic rifle.
- (countable) Initialism of aspect ratio.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of androgen receptor.
- Initialism of administrative rule or administrative regulation.
- (countable, sports, US) Initialism of American record, national record for the United States.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of alternate reality.
- (crime) Initialism of armed robbery.
- (uncountable or plural only, accounting) Initialism of accounts receivable.
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly resolution.
- (countable, weaponry) An AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives.
adj
name
verb
noun
- (medicine, slang, offensive) A stuporous or imbecilic patient; a patient who has lost brain function.
- (slang) A despised person; dork, geek, jerk.
- (medicine, slang, offensive) A terminal patient whose brain is nonfunctional and the rest of whose body can be kept functioning only by the extensive use of mechanical devices and nutrient solutions.
verb
noun
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
noun
- (loosely) Any bag used to commit suicide by suffocation.
- A bag designed to be sealed around a person’s head in order to commit suicide, with a tube or orifice for the introduction of an inert gas.
- Child-resistant packaging for cannabis products, required by law in many U.S. states for customers to carry their merchandise out of a dispensary.
noun
verb
noun
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- A curve.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a circular segment of a curve
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
verb
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
noun
- A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
- (science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.
- a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia
noun
- (uncountable) Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.
- (countable) A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.
- the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
- killing by depriving of oxygen
noun
- (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
- A sycophant, especially a child.
- An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
- (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
- (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
- (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
- (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
- the act of sucking
verb
- (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
- (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
- (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
- draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
- be inadequate or objectionable
- draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- take in, also metaphorically
- give suck to
noun
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- The result of something being choked.
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
adj
verb
noun
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
- (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
- The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
- The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid.
noun
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- Reduction in amount of chemical or other fluid in process such as a heating or ventilation system.
- Reduction in flow rate between two points caused by an intermediate restriction, device, structure or configuration.
- The temporary reduction of bandwidth through a communications network by controlling the package flow rate, in order to minimise congestion.
verb
noun
noun
- a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
- Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen.
- Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.
noun
- (pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.
- an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages
noun
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of artificial respiration.
- (age regression) Initialism of age regression.
- (philately, postal) Initialism of acknowledgment of receipt.
- (aviation) Initialism of aerial refueling.
- (sports, countable) Initialism of area record, best achievement among those by persons from a given continent.
- (meteorology) Initialism of atmospheric river.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of augmented reality.
- (countable, weaponry, informal) An assault rifle or automatic rifle.
- (countable) Initialism of aspect ratio.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of androgen receptor.
- Initialism of administrative rule or administrative regulation.
- (countable, sports, US) Initialism of American record, national record for the United States.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of alternate reality.
- (crime) Initialism of armed robbery.
- (uncountable or plural only, accounting) Initialism of accounts receivable.
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly resolution.
- (countable, weaponry) An AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives.
adj
name
verb
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
noun
- (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
- (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
verb
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- envelop completely
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- form an impenetrable cover over
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
- kill by submerging in water
- get rid of as if by submerging
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
verb
- (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
- (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
- (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
- (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
- (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- reduce the air supply
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
noun
- The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
- A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
- a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
verb
- (intransitive) To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air.
- (transitive) To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
- (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
- remove by suction
- inhale (air, water, etc.)
- pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
adj
noun
- A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
- (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
- A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
- a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds.
- a consonant pronounced with aspiration
verb
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
- get rid of, silence, or suppress
- murder without leaving a trace on the body
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- die from strangulation
noun
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To drown or suppress.
- (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
- (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
- (transitive, figurative, often in the passive voice) To engulf or overwhelm.
- (transitive, often in the passive voice) To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
- sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- put under water
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
- (transitive, figurative) To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.
- (transitive) To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
- (transitive) To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
- (transitive) To prevent (light) from passing through.
verb
noun
- (medicine, slang, offensive) A stuporous or imbecilic patient; a patient who has lost brain function.
- (slang) A despised person; dork, geek, jerk.
- (medicine, slang, offensive) A terminal patient whose brain is nonfunctional and the rest of whose body can be kept functioning only by the extensive use of mechanical devices and nutrient solutions.
verb
noun
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure