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Definition of Suffocating
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 Suffocating
1. Verb. (present participle of suffocate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suffocating
1. suffocate [v] - See also: suffocate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffocating
Literary usage of Suffocating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Lectures and Aphorisms by Samuel Jones Gee (1908)
"The phrase, suffocating Catarrh, has been used in senses so varied that some ...
We can continue to use it only on condition that suffocating catarrh shall ..."
2. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"suffocating Crowds Fill the Hall.—Array of Eminent Counsel. ... Eager crowds
daily attended the suffocating hall of justice, during all this period—the ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"out a recurrence of the suffocating fit ; but only, the subsidence of the
inflammation — indicated by the diminished hoarseness of the cough—gives a ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"out a recurrence of the suffocating fit ; but only the subsidence of the
inflammation — indicated by the diminished hoarseness of the cough—gives a ..."
5. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... which was attributed to a black, heavy Sky, without Thunder to clear it, as
it commonly does, and without it is almost suffocating. FRIDAY. ..."
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