The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffocating \Suf"fo*ca`ting\, a. & n. from Suffocate, v. -- Suf"fo*ca`ting*ly, adv.
Suffocate \Suf"fo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suffocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Suffocating.]
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To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.
--Shak. To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
Wiktionary
n. suffocation vb. (present participle of suffocate English)
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: smothering, suffocative]
Usage examples of "suffocating".
He then rendered it suffocating by closing the amado, for the reason often given, that if he left them open and the house was robbed, the police would not only blame him severely, but would not take any trouble to recover his property.
Did Octavian have asthma, it makes everything that happened to him during that campaign in Macedonia logical, including his fleeing to the sea breezes and cleaner air of the salt marshes while dry ground was fogged by a suffocating pall of chaffy dust.
Must save chlorate cubes, so am nearly suffocating for lack of oxygen.
He recalled one of his stokers, the old man Ilya, who, for ten copecks, used to be on watch at the fireplace out of his turn, working for a comrade eight hours in succession, amid suffocating heat.
I have never been able to understand how in Germany the ladies, otherwise so polite and delicate, could inhale the suffocating fumes of a crowd of smokers.
By their extreme disaccord with her mental condition these words produced on her a slightly suffocating effect.
It became a creeping disease of the body, enfeebling every function, choking, suffocating.
Sooty, suffocating flames enveloped the tank, but the crew remained in action.
Betty was dressed with all decency and neatness, but I had taken off my coat on account of the suffocating heat.
He felt suddenly like he was suffocating, moved outside, tried to breathe, but the air was no cooler.
Heady with the openness of Tirfelden society, which made the strictures of their homeland seem particularly suffocating, the two men had sought entertainment in a local inn and, being unused to the potency and uncontrolled availability of the Tirfelden ale, had ill-advisedly ventured into a particularly heated argument.
While Gelsomina sought the key of the door before which they stopped, in the large bunch she carried, the Bravo breathed the hot air of the attic like one who was suffocating.
Pain mantled him under a suffocating blanket, until the pressed weight of his suffering drilled his skull like a sieve and scattered his thoughts like spilled water.
The men still went on working, wearily ignoring this new outburst because they had been expecting it, as they wearily ignored the other outbursts, and Prew went with them, suddenly suffocating in the wet plaster smell that enveloped him.
He stumbled as he barged into a large room and was immediately assaulted with a suffocating splurge of smell, screamy noises, and splashy lights.