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say it: SUHF-uh-kay-ting
suffocating is an adjective meaning "causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat". It is pronounced /ˈsʌfəˌkeɪtɪŋ/ — SUHF-uh-kay-ting. It carries one recorded sense.
causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
“the choking June dust”
“the smothering soft voices”
“smothering heat”
“the room was suffocating--hot and airless”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suffocating come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.