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Subvocalize
- verb - articulate without making audible sounds; "she was reading to herself and merely subvocalized"
Sufficiency
- noun - an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose;
- sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency"
- the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"
Suffocating
- verb - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
- causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- suppress the development, creativity, or i
Suffocation
- noun - killing by depriving of oxygen
- the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); "asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture"
Suffocative
- adjective - causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
Sugarcoated
- verb - cause to appear more pleasant or appealing; "The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts"
- coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Supercarpal
- - Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.
Superceding
- verb - take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"