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Suffocative

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Tending or able to choke or stifle.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Tending or able to choke or stifle.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat

Word Usage

"The relief its vapor affords in the collapse of chloroform anæsthesia, in which dissolution is imminent from paralyzed heart's action, is instantaneous, and its effect upon the spasmodic and suffocative sensations of hydrophobia are equally prompt."

Equivalent

breathless dyspnoeal dyspnoeic dyspneic dyspneal

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

choky choking stifling smothery strangly