Suffocated
['sʌfəkeitid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Suffocate
Typist: Sophie
Examples
- To be suffocated? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They suffocated some in mud, and suspended others by the feet, or the head, or the thumbs, kindling fires below them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And this is the faithful creature,' exclaimed Mr. Ben Allen, 'whom I had nearly suffocated! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her voice was suffocated with sobs. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The house is situated on a dead flat, and seems to be shut in--almost suffocated, to my north-country notions, by trees. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The wounded who had not strength to move themselves were either suffocated or burned to death. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Altogether, I had like to have been suffocated. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Typist: Sophie