suffocating
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suffocating
- /ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/
verb
- present participle and gerund of suffocate
noun suffocatings
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Synonym of suffocation.
Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.
Similar: suffocation
adjective more suffocating · most suffocating
- That tends to suffocate the target(s); so overwhelming and lethal or life-threatening as to suffocate; suffocative. It is difficult to conceive a state of society in which a sufficient number of disinterested and civilized and imaginative people would, even if given the chance, voluntarily undertake what would be to them the suffocating boredom of government.
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Closest in meaning: smothering, choking, breathless, asphyxiation, nipping, stifling, stuffy, crippling, crushing, straining, oppressive, sweaty, confining, asphyxiating, exsufflation, suffusate
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