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unsuffocate en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + suffocate.

Meanings

1. To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • He had spent his life, it seemed, re-covering David and unsuffocating John. 2013, Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe:
   • Because academics have had cause from earliest times to unsuffocate themselves, as it were, in the fields? 1963, The Poetry Magazine, page 36:

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