Meaning

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

  "Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!"

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

  "He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head."

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

  "I'm suffocating under this huge workload."

• To destroy; to extinguish.

  "to suffocate fire"

Meaning

• Suffocated; choked.