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- Dictionarysuffocating/ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing difficulty in breathing: "the suffocating heat"
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The meaning of SUFFOCATING is tending or serving to suffocate or overpower : overwhelming. How to use suffocating in a sentence.
SUFFOCATION definition: 1. death caused by not having enough oxygen, or the act of killing someone by not allowing them to…. Learn more.
How to use suffocate in a sentence. to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation); to deprive of oxygen; to make uncomfortable by want of fresh air… See the full definition
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.
Definition of suffocating adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of 'suffocate' 1. If someone suffocates or is suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe. [...] 2. If you say that you are suffocating or that something is suffocating you, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe. [...] More.
1. To kill or destroy by preventing access of air or oxygen. 2. To impair the breathing of or cause discomfort to by cutting off the supply of fresh air. 3. To suppress the development, imagination, or creativity of; stifle: "The rigid formality of the place suffocated her" (William Makepeace Thackeray). v.intr. 1.
suffocate meaning: to die because you cannot breathe or to kill someone by stopping them from breathing: . Learn more.
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.
