unsuffocate

English

Etymology

un- +‎ suffocate

Verb

unsuffocate (third-person singular simple present unsuffocates, present participle unsuffocating, simple past and past participle unsuffocated)

1. To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.
   • 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan in sixteen cantos:

     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:

   • 1955, Technique; Revue Industrielle. Industrial Review:

     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.

   • 1963, The Poetry Magazine, page 36:

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

   • 2013, Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe:

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