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SUFFOCATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does suffocative mean?
• SUFFOCATIVE (adjective)
The adjective SUFFOCATIVE has 1 sense:
1. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
Familiarity information: SUFFOCATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
Synonyms:
smothering; suffocating; suffocative
Context example:
the room was suffocating--hot and airless
Similar:
breathless; dyspneal; dyspneic; dyspnoeal; dyspnoeic (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)
Derivation:
suffocate (struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake)
suffocate (feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air)
suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
suffocate (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of)
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