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]