suffocate vs buy the farm

buy the farm vs suffocate

suffocate and buy the farm both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
suffocate	No	No	Yes	No
buy the farm	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, buy the farm is a hypernym of suffocate; that is, buy the farm is a word with a broader meaning than suffocate:

suffocate: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
buy the farm: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Other hypernyms of suffocate include cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.

suffocate (verb)	buy the farm (verb)
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake	pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

Difference between suffocate and buy the farm

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