Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
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
Verb
suffocating
present participle of suffocate
Noun
suffocating (plural suffocatings)
suffocation
Anagrams
• offuscating
Source: Wiktionary
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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