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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]