Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
S: (v) smother, asphyxiate, suffocate (deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing) "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
S: (v) suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of) "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
S: (v) suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen) "The child suffocated under the pillow"