suffocating

Meaning of suffocating

verb
  1. To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
    Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
  2. 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.
  3. To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
    I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
  4. 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:

smothering, suffocative

Meaning :

drown, choke, stifle, asphyxiate, smother

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