suffocating

Speech parts

1. suffocating - Noun

2. suffocating - Verb

4. suffocating - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Suffocate

a. & n. from Suffocate, v.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

smothering suffocative close heavy suffocate hot killing tropical boiling humid blown uncomfortable baking crushing sticky
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Antonyms

airy DRY helping breathing awakening restorative
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Phrases with the word

suffocating weapon

Examples

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. George Steiner

Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world. Emil Cioran

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating. Jean-Paul Sartre

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic. Charles Bukowski

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. H. G. Wells

Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It's like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke. Maureen Dowd

Close letter words and terms

suffocate suffocated suffocater suffocating weapon suffocatingly suffocation