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| Main Entry: | suffocate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, drown, smother, stifle, strangle |
| Antonyms: | free, loose, let go |
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| Main Entry: | stuffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | close, oppressive |
| Synonyms: | breathless, confined, fetid, heavy, humid, muggy, stagnant, stale, sultry, thick, airless, stifling, suffocating, unventilated |
| Antonyms: | airy, breezy, open, ventilated |
| Main Entry: | sultry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot and humid |
| Synonyms: | broiling, burning, close, hot, muggy, oppressive, red-hot*, scorching, soggy, sticky, stuffy, sweltering, torrid, wet, baking, mucky, sizzling, smothering, stifling, suffocating, sweltry |
| Antonyms: | cool, dry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot and humid |
| Synonyms: | close, heavy, muggy, overpowering, steam bath*, steamy, sticky, stuffy, sultry, torrid, airless, stifling, suffocating, sweat box |
| Antonyms: | cool, mild, temperate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oppressive, humid |
| Synonyms: | breathless, confined, heavy, moldy, motionless, muggy, musty, stagnant, stale, sticky, stuffy, sultry, sweltering, thick, tight, uncomfortable, airless, choky, fusty, stale-smelling, stifling, suffocating, sweltry, unventilated |
| Antonyms: | cool, dry |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having strong affect on animate senses |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrid, active, astringent, austere, bitter, brisk, burning, harsh, hot, lively, odorous, piquant, pungent, sour, tart, vigorous, strong-smelling, suffocating, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | bland, calm, dull, flat, low, mild, moderate, tasteless |
| Main Entry: | asphyxiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut off air |
| Synonyms: | choke, drown, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, strangulate |
| Antonyms: | breathe, loosen |
| Main Entry: | choke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | smother, block |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, bar, check, clog, close, constrict, dam, die, drown, fill, gag, gasp, kill, noose, obstruct, occlude, overpower, retard, squeeze, stifle, stop, stopper, strangle, stuff, stunt, suffocate, suppress, throttle, wring, congest, garrote, gibbet, strangulate |
| Antonyms: | release, unblock, unconstrict |
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; stop living |
| Synonyms: | be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk*, croak*, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket*, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate |
| Antonyms: | be born, begin, live |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid; submerge and die |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, wipe out, knock over, whelm |
| Antonyms: | float, rescue, save |
| Main Entry: | extinguish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put out a fire |
| Synonyms: | choke, douse, drown, out, quench, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, trample, blot out, blow out |
| Antonyms: | light |
| Main Entry: | go under |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail, submerge |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, default, die, drown, fall, fold, founder, go down, sink, submit, succumb, suffocate, surrender, submerse |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, succeed |
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deprive of existence; destroy |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with*, do in*, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off*, put away*, rub out*, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out*, zap*, X-out, garrote, immolate, put to death |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | smother |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extinguish; cover, hide |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, choke, collect, compose, conceal, control, cool, cork, douse, envelop, heap, hush up*, inundate, kill, muffle, overwhelm, quash, quell, quench, rein, repress, restrain, shower, shroud, snuff, squelch, stamp out, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, surround, throttle, keep back, simmer down |
| Antonyms: | light, start, uncover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stifle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prevent, restrain |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, black out, check, choke, cork, curb, extinguish, gag, hush, hush up, kill*, muffle, muzzle, repress, shut up, silence, smother, spike, squash, squelch, stagnate, stop, strangle, stultify, suffocate, suppress, trammel, bring to screeching halt, burke, choke back, clam up, clamp down, constipate, cover up, crack down, dry up*, hold it down, put the lid on, sit on*, torpedo* |
| Antonyms: | encourage, help, persuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | strangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke, stifle |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, gag, inhibit, kill, muffle, repress, restrain, smother, squelch, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle, garrote/garrotte, quelch, shush, strangulate |
| Notes: | strangle implies a focus on the result of this process, whereas strangulate focuses on the process itself |
| Antonyms: | free, loose, let go |
| Main Entry: | stultify |
| Part of Speech: | verb2 |
| Definition: | inhibit |
| Synonyms: | cripple, hinder, negate, prevent, smother, stifle, suffocate |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
combustible, ablaze, adiaphoretic, afire, alight, anhidrotic, ardent, baking, blazing, blood-hot, blood-warm, buldering, burning-hot, burnt, calefacient, calorific, candent, canicular, close, coctile, deflagrable, diaphoretic, diathermal, diathermanous, ebullient, estiferous, estival, euthermic, fervent, fervid, fiery, genial, glowing, heated, heating, hidrotic, hot, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, igneous, ignescent, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in a heat, in a perspiration, in a sweat, in flames, incalescent, incandescent, inflamed, inflammable, isotheral, isothermal, isothermic, kindling, like a furnace, like an oven, lukewarm, mild, molten, on fire, oppressive, piping-hot, plutonic, pyretic, red-hot, reeking, scumfished, semiustulate, smoking, smoking-hot, smoldering, sodden, stifling, stuffy, sudoriferous, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, sunny, sweltered, sweltering, sweltry, swullocking, tepid, thalpotic, thermal, thermic, torrid, tropical, unextinguished, unfrozen, unquenched, ustulated, volcanic, warm, warm as toast, warm as wool, white-hot
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| Main Entry: | stench |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
bad, caprylic, corky, empyreumatic, feculent, fetid, foul, frowzy, fulsome, fusty, graveolent, halitotic, high, jumentous, maleolent, malodorous, mephitic, miasmatic, mucid, musty, nidorous, noisome, offensive, olid, olidous, putrescent, putrid, rafty, rammish, rancid, rank, reasty, saprostomous, smelling, smelly, stinking, stinky, strong, strong smelling, suffocating, tainted
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