SUFFOCATING: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SUFFOCATING?

Need another word that means the same as “suffocating”? Find 2 synonyms and 30 related words for “suffocating” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Suffocating” are: smothering, suffocative

Suffocating as an Adjective

Definitions of "Suffocating" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “suffocating” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Making one feel trapped and oppressed.
• Causing difficulty in breathing.
• Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat.

Synonyms of "Suffocating" as an adjective (2 Words)

smothering	Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat. The smothering soft voices.
suffocative	Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat.

Usage Examples of "Suffocating" as an adjective

• The suffocating heat.
• The room was suffocating–hot and airless.
• Some marriages can at times feel suffocating.

Associations of "Suffocating" (30 Words)

airway	A ventilating passage in a mine. He kept the man s airway clear and blood circulating.
choke	Cause to retch or choke. Too much choke does not help.
choking	The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe. No evidence that the choking was done by the accused.
clog	Impede with a clog or as if with a clog. Too much fatty food makes your arteries clog up.
clutter	A collection of things lying about in an untidy state. The room was cluttered with his bric a brac.
dead	Lacking emotion, sympathy, or sensitivity. Took dead aim.
death	The personification of death. It was the death of all his plans.
demise	Transfer by a lease or by a will. The manor and the mill were demised for twenty one year terms.
drown	Deliberately kill a person or animal by drowning. Two fishermen were drowned when their motorboat capsized.
emergency	Arising from or used in an emergency. A doctor in emergency cleaned the wound.
esophagus	The passage between the pharynx and the stomach.
execute	Sign in the presence of witnesses. He was convicted of treason and executed.
expiration	The end of a period of time. At the end of expiration there is still a slight inflation in the lungs.
garrote	An instrument of execution for execution by strangulation.
hanging	The practice of hanging condemned people as a form of capital punishment. Hanging gardens.
ligature	Bind or connect with a ligature. He ligatured the duodenum below the pylorus.
muffle	A kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature. Muffle one s anger.
nasal	A nasal speech sound. Nasal passages.
obstruct	Block (an opening, path, road, etc.); be or get in the way of. They had to alter the course of the stream and obstruct the natural flow of the water.
oppress	Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one’s authority. A system which oppressed working people.
perish	Die, especially in a violent or sudden way. Must these noble hopes perish so soon.
rip	A fraud or swindle a rip off. The skirt of her frock ripped.
smother	Suppress (a feeling or action. She smothered a sigh.
stifle	Smother or suppress. Those in the streets were stifled by the fumes.
strangle	Conceal or hide. They allowed bureaucracy to strangle initiative.
suffocation	Killing by depriving of oxygen. We had to face heat and suffocation inside the coach.
throttle	Control an engine or vehicle with a throttle. She was sorely tempted to throttle him.
valve	Each of the halves of the hinged shell of a bivalve mollusc or brachiopod or of the parts of the compound shell of a barnacle. A valve shuts off the flow from the boiler when the water is hot enough.
welter	Be immersed in. The attack petered out in a welter of bloody confused fighting.