unsuffocate

English

Etymology

un- +‎ suffocate

Verb

unsuffocate (third-person singular simple present unsuffocates, present participle unsuffocating, simple past and past participle unsuffocated)

To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.
- 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan in sixteen cantos:
  And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
- 1955, Technique; Revue Industrielle. Industrial Review:
  But here is an honest attempt to unsuffocate the central part of the city, which was like a plumpish woman with a pair of diabolical tight corsets cutting into her waist.
- 1963, The Poetry Magazine, page 36:
  Because academics have had cause from earliest times to unsuffocate themselves, as it were, in the fields?
- 2013, Eugene Burdick, ‎Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe:
  He had spent his life, it seemed, re-covering David and unsuffocating John.

单词	unsuffocate
释义	unsuffocate English Etymology un- +‎ suffocate Verb unsuffocate (third-person singular simple present unsuffocates, present participle unsuffocating, simple past and past participle unsuffocated) To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances. 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan in sixteen cantos: And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: 1955, Technique; Revue Industrielle. Industrial Review: But here is an honest attempt to unsuffocate the central part of the city, which was like a plumpish woman with a pair of diabolical tight corsets cutting into her waist. 1963, The Poetry Magazine, page 36: Because academics have had cause from earliest times to unsuffocate themselves, as it were, in the fields? 2013, Eugene Burdick, ‎Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe: He had spent his life, it seemed, re-covering David and unsuffocating John.
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