suffocating
suh fuh kay ting
- v deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- v impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
The foul air was slowly suffocating the children - v become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village - v suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- v be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- v feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating - v struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- s causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
the room was suffocating--hot and airless
- If the decade of the '50s had the suffocating "smell of the middle class," as Gloria Steinem, 34, says with distaste, then it was an odor that most Americans seemed to like.
- A country that doesn't allow women that kind of freedom is suffocating for us.
- In this confined and often suffocating place, it was still possible, though never easy, to breathe the love of God as a gay Catholic.