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- Dictionarysuffocating/ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing difficulty in breathing: "the suffocating heat"
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SUFFOCATING definition: 1. Something that is suffocating makes you feel uncomfortably hot or unable to breathe: 2…. Learn more.
The meaning of SUFFOCATING is tending or serving to suffocate or overpower : overwhelming. How to use suffocating in a sentence.
to die because of a lack of oxygen, or to kill someone by preventing that person from breathing: [ I ] The government warned parents yesterday not to let infants sleep on small plastic pillows because the babies could suffocate.
May 30, 2012 · : to impede or stop the development of. intransitive verb. 1. : to become suffocated: a (1) : to die from being unable to breathe. (2) : to die from lack of oxygen. b. : to be uncomfortable through lack of fresh air. 2. : to become checked in development.
Something that is suffocating makes you feel uncomfortably hot or unable to breathe: I have to open the window - it's suffocating in here! suffocating smoke / fumes
to kill or be killed by the deprivation of oxygen, as by obstruction of the air passage or inhalation of noxious gases. to block the air passages or have the air passages blocked. to feel or cause to feel discomfort from heat and lack of air. Discover More.
Definition of suffocating adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
You say that a person or thing is suffocating, or that something is suffocating them, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating.
adjective. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat. “the room was suffocating --hot and airless”. synonyms: smothering, suffocative. breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic. not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty.
the act of killing by preventing air from getting to the blood through the lungs or gills; strangulation: A crushing neck injury resulted in the child’s suffocation. difficulty breathing or inability to breathe, or any act that causes this: One protestor endured temporary suffocation from tear gas.
