asphyxiating

1. 1.

   tending to deprive of oxygen

   “asphyxiating gasses”

   Similarbreathless

Questions about asphyxiating

What does asphyxiating mean?

asphyxiating means "tending to deprive of oxygen".

How many syllables are in asphyxiating?

asphyxiating has 5 syllables: a-sphyx-i-a-ting. The stress falls on "sphyx". In IPA it is /æˈsfɪksiˌeɪtɪŋ/.

Is asphyxiating a common word?

asphyxiating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with asphyxiating?

20 words rhyme with asphyxiating. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.