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