Suffocating

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suffocating \Suf"fo*ca`ting\,
     a. & n. from {Suffocate}, v. -- {Suf"fo*ca`ting*ly}, adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Suffocate \Suf"fo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suffocated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Suffocating}.]
     1. To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to
        smother.
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              Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.  --Shak.
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     2. To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suffocating
       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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "suffocating":
     airless, breathless, breezeless, censorship, close, crackdown,
     crushing, extinguishment, humid, ill-ventilated, muggy,
     nose-piercing, oppressive, penetrating, pungent, putting down,
     quashing, quelling, quenching, reeking, repression, sharp,
     smashing, smothering, smudgy, squashing, squelching, sticky,
     stifling, strangling, strong, strong-scented, strong-smelling,
     stuffy, subdual, sultry, suppression, throttling, unvented,
     unventilated, windless