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Muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation
“Nothing short of getting out of this tiny, suffocating room would help me draw a normal breath again.”
Strongly stimulating or overpowering to the senses
Intolerable in degree, severity or intensity
Cramped and confined, so as to induce the fear of closed or tight spaces
Unpleasant in a way that induces discomfort to the senses or nausea
Present participle for to have or cause to have difficulty in breathing
“She shuddered remembering the last time she had missed the early bus and how she had had to sit beside some guy wearing so much cologne she thought that she would suffocate from lack of real air.”
Present participle for to kill or die through lack of oxygen, such as by blockage of the air passage
“I couldn't breathe. It got so bad I wondered if I could actually suffocate to death.”
Present participle for to cause or experience an obstruction of one's windpipe, typically by strangling
“He threw himself on me trying to suffocate me, then he collapsed crying. He staggered out to the lounge room blubbering.”
Present participle for to be subjected to stifling heat
“I can't say that my house is freezing. On the contrary, I almost suffocate in the stifling heat.”
Present participle for to suffocate a person's space as if to coerce them into doing something
Present participle for to die through submersion in and inhalation of water
Present participle for to hamper or impede the progress of
Present participle for to murder or assassinate someone
Present participle for to die or cease living
Present participle for to extinguish a flame or fire
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