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Definition of Smothering
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 Smothering
1. Verb. (present participle of smother) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smothering
1. smother [v] - See also: smother
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smothering
Literary usage of Smothering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1892)
"smothering.—smothering is a variety of suffocation, and consists in the mere
covering of the mouth and nostrils in any way so as to prevent the free ..."
2. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"smothering, or the covering of the head and face with articles of clothing, «fee., which
effectually prevent respiration. 3. The accidental or forcible ..."
3. Medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1861)
"smothering, or the covering of the head and face with articles of clothing,
&c., which effectually prevent respiration. 3. The accidental or forcible ..."
4. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1853)
"smothering, or the covering of the head and face with articles >f clothing,
&c., which effectually prevent respiration. 3. ..."
5. First Aid in Illness and Injury: Comprised in a Series of Chapters on the by James Evelyn Pilcher (1892)
"smothering may be due to a number of causes. The most common is drowning, ...
Anything which will close the air-passage will produce smothering ; such are ..."
6. Bleaching and Dyeing of Vegetable Fibrous Materials by Julius Hübner (1912)
"smothering " OP THE SULPHUR DYESTUFFS AFTER DYEING. ... This process is
termed "smothering." The different methods of smothering will be discussed under the ..."
7. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, John James Reese (1873)
"smothering. BY suffocation we are to understand that condition in which air is
prevented from penetrating into the lungs, not by constriction of the ..."
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