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Meaning of unsuffocate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.

Examples

“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:”
“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.”
“Because academics have had cause from earliest times to unsuffocate themselves, as it were, in the fields?”
“He had spent his life, it seemed, re-covering David and unsuffocating John.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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