Suffocating Synonyms and Antonyms

Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stifling
  2. smothering
  3. choking
  4. strangling
  5. asphyxiating
  6. throttling
  7. suppressing
  8. killing
  9. drowning
  10. destroying
Antonyms:
  1. freeing
  2. loosing
Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. asphyxiating
  2. strangling
  3. choking
  4. gagging
  5. stifling
Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. choking
Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. smothering
  2. suffocative

Suffocating Sentence Examples

  • She entered the forest, and the darkness was crushing, suffocating her.

  • This time, it was suffocating him.

  • The heat was suffocating.

  • It is a colourless gas which possesses a characteristic suffocating odour.

  • Nature has provided several species of animals, birds and reptiles, to feed upon these insects, and various poisonous and suffocating compounds are used to destroy them, but with no great degree of success.

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