Suffocating

Quick meaning: Suffocating is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of suffocate.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of suffocate.

More Meanings

1. Synonym of suffocation.
2. That tends to suffocate the target(s); so overwhelming and lethal or life-threatening as to suffocate; suffocative.

Example Sentences

Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.

It is difficult to conceive a state of society in which a sufficient number of disinterested and civilized and imaginative people would, even if given the chance, voluntarily undertake what would be to them the suffocating boredom of government.

"From the Thursday before to that Time he was dying of an hard Cough and a suffocating Asthma with a Fever; but he felt no great Pain; he had the sweet Composure and easy Departure, for which he had entreated so often and fervently the sovereign Disposer of all Things.

On the sudden outburst of a great fire, the passages are commonly filled with suffocating smoke, and often with flame, which render the hydrants in the internal passages inaccessible, and generally cut off communication with superior reservoirs, and of this there have been frequent large instances.

Word Forms

• suffocatings

Synonyms for suffocating

Depending on context, synonyms include suffocation, smothering, breathless, choking, suffocative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smothering, choking, breathless, asphyxiation, nipping, stuffy.

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