asphyxiating
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asphyxiating
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By surface analysis, asphyxiate + -ing.
adjective more asphyxiating · most asphyxiating
- Causing asphyxiation; depriving living beings of the ability to breathe. If one digs a deep pit and another comes and broadens it, and an ox falls into it and dies, the rule is as follows: If the ox dies as a result of the asphyxiating atmosphere of the pit, the second person is exempt because his action has rendered the atmosphere less asphyxiating. If, however, it dies
- Restrictive; stifling; preventing emotional or behavioral expression. For Kate, Dick and the theatre company represent a world of imagination, sensuality, and emotional freedom that her asphyxiating religion cannot accommodate.
- Overwhelming; breathtaking. But according to Gauchet's thesis, Christianity has proven to be 'a religion for departing from religion' (ibid. 4); the gradual emancipation from and death of God has trained and conditioned us Westerners to withstand the asphyxiating terror of freedom.
verb
- present participle and gerund of asphyxiate To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
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title = {asphyxiating},
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