unsuffocate

present singular third person unsuffocates · participle present unsuffocating · participle past unsuffocated · past unsuffocated

1. To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.

   He had spent his life, it seemed, re-covering David and unsuffocating John.

   2013, Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe

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   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:

   1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan in sixteen cantos

   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.

   1955, Technique; Revue Industrielle. Industrial Review

   Because academics have had cause from earliest times to unsuffocate themselves, as it were, in the fields?

   1963, The Poetry Magazine, page 36