suffocate

The Lakers have the league’s highest-rated defense over the last six weeks or so, and they once again suffocated their opponents on Friday night.

City Hall's Conservatives said the mayor had so far "suffocated" economic ambition in London and that it took the figures in the plans with a "pinch of salt".

The entertainment power and control of media logic that suffocated real journalism and public communication led to the digitally enhanced rise of Trumpism and hostility to government.

Every step in the search-and-rescue process would take time, and someone buried in snow is likely to suffocate within minutes.

They said that for two decades the Russian leader had been "seeking to recreate the Russian empire and suffocate the countries around its borders".