GRE Word List
SUFFOCATE
to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation)
The meaning of the word suffocate is to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slag | the dross or scoria of a metal |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| compound | something formed by a union of elements or parts |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |