suffocating

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of suffocatepresent participle and gerund of suffocate

noun

1. 1

   Synonym of suffocation.

   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.

adjective

1. 1

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

   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.

   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.

   "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.

   But during this siege it is certain that Greek fire was used with dreadful effect upon the Turks, driving them back with its fierce flame and suffocating smoke as they attempted to cross the ditch and scale the walls, destroying their platforms and ladders, and consuming even the bodies of the dead.

Forms

plural

suffocatings

comparative

more suffocating

superlative

most suffocating