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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:

Suffocate \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.
      [1913 Webster]

            Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.  --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
      [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Suffocating \Suf"fo*ca`ting\,
   a. & n. from Suffocate, v. -- Suf"fo*ca`ting*ly, adv.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

suffocating
    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]