Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat;
- Example: "the choking June dust"- Example: "the smothering soft voices"- Example: "smothering heat"- Example: "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"[syn: smothering, suffocating, suffocative]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Suffocative \Suf"fo*ca*tive\, a.
Tending or able to choke or stifle. "Suffocative catarrhs."
--Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
suffocative
adj 1: 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" [syn:
smothering, suffocating, suffocative]