Cryptic crossword clue
Toff caused criminal to be stifled 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word SUFFOCATED

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What does SUFFOCATED mean?

SUFFOCATED verb
  1. To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
  2. To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
  3. To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
  4. To destroy; to extinguish.
SUFFOCATED adjective
  1. Having died as a result of suffocation.

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