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unsuffocate

verb

Etymology

From un- + suffocate.

  1. derived from suffōcō
  2. derived from suffōcātus
  3. inherited from suffocat — “deprived of air, suffocated”
  4. prefixed as unsuffocate — “un + suffocate”

Definitions

  1. To unsmother

    To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.

    • And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
    • But here is an honest attempt to unsuffocate the central part of the city, which was like a plumpish woman with a pair of diabolical tight corsets cutting into her waist.
    • Because academics have had cause from earliest times to unsuffocate themselves, as it were, in the fields?

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