unsuffocate
verbEtymology From un- + suffocate.
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To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.
- 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:
2 more examples
- Because academics have had cause from earliest times to unsuffocate themselves, as it were, in the fields?1963, The Poetry Magazine, page 36:
- He had spent his life, it seemed, re-covering David and unsuffocating John.2013, Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe: