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SUFFOCATIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
Example:
the room was suffocating--hot and airless
Synonyms:
smothering; suffocating; suffocative
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Similar:
breathless; dyspneal; dyspneic; dyspnoeal; dyspnoeic (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)
Derivation:
suffocate (struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake)
suffocate (feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air)
suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
suffocate (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of)