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unsuffocate

unsuffocate verb: to unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.

Verb

unsuffocate (third-person singular simple present unsuffocates, present participle unsuffocating, simple past and past participle unsuffocated)

  1. 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:1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan in sixteen cantos
    • 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.1955, Technique; Revue Industrielle. Industrial Review

Forms of unsuffocate

third-person singular presentunsuffocates
present participleunsuffocating
past participleunsuffocated
pastunsuffocated

Origin of unsuffocate

From un- + suffocate.

Questions about unsuffocate

What does unsuffocate mean?
Unsuffocate means to unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.
What part of speech is unsuffocate?
Unsuffocate is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsuffocate?
The past tense of unsuffocate is unsuffocated.

Words near unsuffocate in the dictionary

  1. unsufficient
  2. unsufficiently
  3. unsufficing
  4. unsufficingness
  5. unsuffixed
  6. unsuffocate
  7. unsuffocated
  8. unsuffocates
  9. unsuffocating
  10. unsuffused
  11. unsugared

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