unsuffocate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From un- + suffocate.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un