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deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
<verb.contact>   freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

sample sentences

"Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"
"The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners
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