suffocating

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[ US /ˈsəfəˌkeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌfəkˌe‍ɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
    the smothering soft voices
    smothering heat
    the choking June dust
    the room was suffocating--hot and airless
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How To Use suffocating In A Sentence

  • Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating.
  • I couldn't breathe, the fumes were suffocating me.
  • I'd anticipated him working inside a Back-To-The-Future kind of laboratory with bubbling beakers, coiled yellow electrical wire, and a suffocating sense of disarray.
  • It is ravaging the ecosystem because it consumes large quantities of oxygen, suffocating other marine life.
  • Sometimes she would wake at night unable to breathe, terrified she was suffocating.
  • This feels like improvisation, so naturally have they found the heart of the scores and the recording is excellent as well, close without suffocating the listener or the music, detail with air around it.
  • Economics risks suffocating architecture, but so does polite conservatism and a consumerist attitude.
  • The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
  • In his birthday address of 2004, Akihito seemed to suggest he was fed up with Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife criticising his eldest son for speaking in public earlier that year of the "suffocating atmosphere" in the royal household which he claimed had contributed to his wife's clinical depression. Emperor Akihito: A bulwark against a sea of troubles | Observer profile
  • It proclaims the burdens of pollution control regulation, displaying industry as suffocating under costly yet trivial constraints.
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