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    SUFFOCATING

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     I. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heatplay

    Example:

    the room was suffocating--hot and airless

    Synonyms:

    smothering; suffocating; suffocative

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    Adjectives

    Similar:

    breathless; dyspneal; dyspneic; dyspnoeal; dyspnoeic (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    -ing form of the verb suffocate

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     Context examples: 

    I felt myself slipping into unconsciousness, and tried with all the power of my will to fight above the suffocating blankness and darkness that was rising around me.

    (The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

    He had been suffocating in that atmosphere, while the apprentice's chatter had driven him frantic.

    (Martin Eden, by Jack London)

    I was choking and suffocating by the time I reached Wolf Larsen’s bunk.

    (The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

    I had half started forward, to get over with what I was certain would be a stormy five minutes, when a more violent suffocating paroxysm seized the unfortunate person who was lying on his back.

    (The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

    From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.

    (The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)


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