suffocating
Meaning of suffocating
verb
- To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
- To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
- To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
- To destroy; to extinguish.
to suffocate fire
noun
Suffocation
Information about suffocating
- The plural form of suffocating is: suffocatings.
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Hyphenation of suffocating
suf-fo-cat-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- suffocating is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
suffocating synonyms
Meaning smothering:
Meaning :
drown, choke, stifle, asphyxiate, smother
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