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- Dictionarysuffocating/ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing difficulty in breathing: "the suffocating heat"
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preventing something or someone from improving or developing in a positive way: The book tells the story of a woman escaping from a suffocating marriage. It is a land of antiquated social rules and suffocating traditions. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Serious and unpleasant.
The meaning of SUFFOCATING is tending or serving to suffocate or overpower : overwhelming. How to use suffocating in a sentence.
SUFFOCATE definition: 1. to (cause someone to) die because of not having enough oxygen: 2. to prevent something or…. Learn more.
SUFFOCATION definition: 1. death caused by not having enough oxygen, or the act of killing someone by not allowing them to…. Learn more.
Suffocate definition: to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle. . See examples of SUFFOCATE used in a sentence.
You say that a person or thing is suffocating, or that something is suffocating them, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating.
verb. /ˈsʌfəkeɪt/ [intransitive, transitive] Verb Forms. to die because there is no air to breathe; to kill somebody by not letting them breathe air. Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars. suffocate somebody/something The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire. He put the pillow over her face and suffocated her.
suffocate. verb. /ˈsʌfəˌkeɪt/. Verb Forms. [intransitive, transitive] to die because there is no air to breathe; to kill someone by not letting them breathe air Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars. suffocate somebody/something The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas heater.
Suffocation definition: the act of killing by preventing air from getting to the blood through the lungs or gills; strangulation. See examples of SUFFOCATION used in a sentence.
adjective. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat. “the room was suffocating --hot and airless”. synonyms: smothering, suffocative. breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic. not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty.
