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- Dictionarysuffocating/ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing difficulty in breathing: "the suffocating heat"
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Something that is suffocating makes you feel uncomfortably hot or unable to breathe: I've got to open the window - it's suffocating in here! suffocating smoke / fumes
The meaning of SUFFOCATING is tending or serving to suffocate or overpower : overwhelming. How to use suffocating in a sentence.
to die because of a lack of oxygen, or to kill someone by preventing that person from breathing: [ I ] The government warned parents yesterday not to let infants sleep on small plastic pillows because the babies could suffocate.
to kill or be killed by the deprivation of oxygen, as by obstruction of the air passage or inhalation of noxious gases. to block the air passages or have the air passages blocked. to feel or cause to feel discomfort from heat and lack of air. Discover More.
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.
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 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.
