SUFFOCATING

smothering, suffocating, suffocative

(adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; “the choking June dust”; “the smothering soft voices”; “smothering heat”; “the room was suffocating--hot and airless”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

suffocating

present participle of suffocate

Noun

suffocating (plural suffocatings)

suffocation

Anagrams

• offuscating

Source: Wiktionary

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Suf"fo*ca`ting, a. & n.

Definition: from Suffocate, v.

– Suf"fo*ca`ting*ly, adv.

SUFFOCATE

Suf"fo*cate, a. Etym: [L. suffocatus, p.p. of suffocare to choke; sub under + fauces the throat. Cf. Faucal.]

Definition: Suffocated; choked. Shak.

Suf"fo*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suffocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Suffocating.]

1. To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak.

2. To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.

Suf"fo*cate, v. i.

Definition: To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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