Words similar to suffocate

Example sentences for: suffocate

How can you use “suffocate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Languages that rigidly hold on to their purity soon suffocate themselves.
Then they would shoot or suffocate him.
One particularly invoked George Orwell's 1984 . Other issues: child porn on the Net, on-the-scene news on television, and whether parents who leave children to suffocate in a hot car should be charged with manslaughter.
Everyone agrees his strategy is to create an air of inevitability and suffocate his competitors.