Definitions of suffocating
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causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat“the room was suffocating--hot and airless”synonyms: smothering, suffocativebreathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeicnot breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
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