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suffocate meaning in Urdu

دم گھٹنا

/ˈsʌfəkeɪt/

suffocate in Urdu: دم گھٹنا, دم گھوٹنا. In English, suffocate means to suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

Urdu words for suffocate

دم گھٹنا, دم گھوٹنا

English meaning of suffocate

  1. verb To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
  2. verb To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
  3. verb To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
  4. verb To destroy; to extinguish.

Full definition of suffocate

suffocate in a sentence

  • Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
  • He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
  • I'm suffocating under this huge workload.

Synonyms of suffocate

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Questions about suffocate in Urdu

What is the meaning of suffocate in Urdu?
Suffocate in Urdu is دم گھٹنا, دم گھوٹنا.
suffocate کا اردو میں کیا مطلب ہے؟
Suffocate: دم گھٹنا, دم گھوٹنا.
What does suffocate mean in English?
Suffocate means to suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

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Urdu words from Urdu Wiktionary: suffocate (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: suffocate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Urdu words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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