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SUFFOCATING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
Example:
the room was suffocating--hot and airless
Synonyms:
smothering; suffocating; suffocative
Classified under:
Similar:
breathless; dyspneal; dyspneic; dyspnoeal; dyspnoeic (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb suffocate
Context examples:
I felt myself slipping into unconsciousness, and tried with all the power of my will to fight above the suffocating blankness and darkness that was rising around me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He had been suffocating in that atmosphere, while the apprentice's chatter had driven him frantic.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I was choking and suffocating by the time I reached Wolf Larsen’s bunk.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I had half started forward, to get over with what I was certain would be a stormy five minutes, when a more violent suffocating paroxysm seized the unfortunate person who was lying on his back.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
