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Definition of Suffocative
1. Adjective. Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat. "The room was suffocating--hot and airless"
Similar to: Breathless, Dyspneal, Dyspneic, Dyspnoeal, Dyspnoeic
Derivative terms: Suffocate, Suffocate, Suffocate, Suffocate
Definition of Suffocative
1. a. Tending or able to choke or stifle.
Definition of Suffocative
1. Adjective. Tending or able to choke or stifle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suffocative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffocative
Literary usage of Suffocative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"... clearing away the mucus from the throats of infants, in the suffocative
paroxysms observed in the generalized bronchitis so fatal to young children. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest by William Stokes (1837)
"In the epidemic influenza of 1833, many examples of this suffocative catarrh
occurred; and in several of them the administration of an enema, containing ten ..."
3. An Elementary Class-book of Practical Coal-mining: For the Use of Students by Thomas Hansom Cockin (1904)
"From suffocative gases. 3. From the use of explosives (see Chap. X.). 4. ...
The fatalities occasioned by suffocative gases—leaving after-damp out of the ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1897)
"with symptoms of suffocative catarrh, received these cold applications every
half-hour, with marked amelioration of the grave symptoms and a modification of ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1841)
"Researches on the purulent and pseudo-membranous form of Capillary Bronchitis in
Children, (otherwise called suffocative Catarrh, or bronchial Croup. ..."
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