What is the meaning of Suffocate?

To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.

To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.

To destroy; to extinguish.

Suffocated; choked.

second-person plural present active imperative of suffōcō

Source: wiktionary.org