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suffocating
" Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity."
Armand Assante

Meaning of "suffocating" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SUFFOCATING

ˈsʌfəˌkeɪtɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUFFOCATING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Suffocating is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SUFFOCATING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Asphyxia

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing. An example of asphyxia is choking. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which primarily affects the tissues and organs. There are many circumstances that can induce asphyxia, all of which are characterized by an inability of an individual to acquire sufficient oxygen through breathing for an extended period of time. Asphyxia can cause coma or death.

Definition of suffocating in the English dictionary

The definition of suffocating in the dictionary is making it difficult to breathe normally. Other definition of suffocating is restricting what somebody or something can do.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUFFOCATING

communicating · coruscating · dating · decorating · deprecating · fascinating · ice-skating · intoxicating · nonintoxicating · operating · placating · rating · roller-skating · rusticating · self-lubricating · self-replicating · skating · truncating · unintoxicating · waiting

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUFFOCATING

sufficiently · sufficingness · suffisance · suffix · suffixal · suffixation · suffixion · sufflate · sufflation · suffocate · suffocatingly · suffocation · suffocative · Suffolk · Suffolk punch · Suffr. · suffragan · suffraganship · suffrage · suffragette

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUFFOCATING

accounting · alternating · beating · boating · cheating · coating · devastating · eating · floating · frustrating · heating · humiliating · incorporating · mating · oscillating · overheating · repeating · rotating · seating · star rating · stimulating

Synonyms and antonyms of suffocating in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SUFFOCATING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «suffocating» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «suffocating» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SUFFOCATING

Find out the translation of suffocating to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of suffocating from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «suffocating» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

令人窒息
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

sofocante
570 millions of speakers
en

English

suffocating
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

घुट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخانقة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

задыхается
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

sufocante
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

শ্বাসরোধী
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

suffocante
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Sesak nafas
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

erstickenden
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

息の詰まるような
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

질식
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Suffocating
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngột ngạt
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மூச்சுத்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

घुटमळणारा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

boğucu
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

soffocante
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

dusi
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

задихається
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

sufocant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασφυκτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

versmoor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kvävande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kvelende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of suffocating

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUFFOCATING»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of suffocating
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «suffocating».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about suffocating

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10 QUOTES WITH «SUFFOCATING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word suffocating.
1
Armand Assante
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
2
John Avlon
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
3
Vince Cable
My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.
4
Glenn Greenwald
I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I'm reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out!
5
Patrick Modiano
Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
6
Gordon Neufeld
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
7
Marie Osmond
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
8
Annie Potts
I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.
9
George Steiner
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
10
Bradley Whitford
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUFFOCATING»

Discover the use of suffocating in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to suffocating and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in ...
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Janet Adelman, 2012
2
The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense.
Philip K. Howard, 2011
3
To Walk Or Stay: Trusting God Through Shattered Hopes and ...
After six years together, with three young children, Lara discovered the devastating reality of her husband's marital betrayal.Lara gives tender guidance to any woman walking the unexpected paths of betrayal.
Lara Williams, 2013
4
Flower Terror: Suffocating Stories of China
" -- Publishers Weekly "The stories in this work are well written." -- Library Journal "The twelve novellas and short stories reveal an articulate power of narration?"-- Midwest Book Review
Pu Ning, Wumingshi (pseud.), Wu-Ming-Shih, 1999
5
Secret of the Suffocating Slime Trap... and More!
"Explains how hagfish excrete slime to evade predators and details other strange abilities of different types of animals"--Provided by publisher.
Ana Maria Rodriguez, 2008
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Von Erdrückenden und Erdrückten Generationen / on ...
Deutsch: Die Schrift fordert f r die Schweiz eine gesamtheitliche Sicht der finanziellen Umlagen von den Erwerbsgenerationen zu den Ruhestandsgenerationen.
Lorenz Flückiger, 2012
7
The Suffocating Night: The 4th Novel in the Lydmouth Crime ...
The fourth novel in the Lydmouth crime series, from the prize-winning author of the Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy.
Andrew Taylor, 2012
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Forensic Pathology, Second Edition
Suffocating Gases Deaths from suffocating gases are caused, not by the toxic nature of the gases, but rather by displacement of oxygen from the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and methane are the two most commonly encountered suffocating ...
Dominick DiMaio, Vincent J.M. DiMaio, M.D., 2001
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Diary with Daily Bread Six: Suffocating My Spirit-Can't ...
God will always have a powerful church, because there is nothing weak about a Holy and Righteous God!
Josephate Ngichabe, Josephate Ngichabe, 2013
10
The Traitor
Now that I can do nothing but think, it seems to me that the most trivial pains are more important than the tragedies; they cause the most unbearable desperation; they gradually build up into a suffocating mass. Everywhere you go you will see ...
Michael Cisco, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUFFOCATING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term suffocating is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bohemian conformity can be just as suffocating as any other type …
In other words, the programme takes the Bloomsburyites entirely on their own terms, as heroic battlers for modernity against suffocating convention. «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Largo father accused of suffocating 2-month-old baby
LARGO — A 20-year-old man was arrested Tuesday night on charges that he suffocated his 2-month-old daughter, police said. «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»
3
French mother jailed for suffocating eight babies
Cottrez earlier confessed to suffocating her children after giving birth secretly at home near Lille. She then buried the bodies in the garden of her parents' home ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
4
French woman Dominique Cottrez goes on trial for deaths of 8 of her …
The daughters of the French nurse who is accused of suffocating her eight newborn babies - and hiding the bodies in her house - mistook the foul smell of the ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
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Man pleads guilty to suffocating, bludgeoning Washington Terrace …
OGDEN — An Ogden man pleaded guilty Monday to brutally suffocating and beating a single mother to death in her Washington Terrace apartment. Lyle Robert ... «KSL.com, Jun 15»
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Mother accused of suffocating 2 children in Rizal
A mother of two is facing parricide charges after allegedly suffocating her children, including a 4-month-old baby, at their home in San Mateo municipality in ... «Inquirer.net, May 15»
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Sir Andrew Motion moves from 'suffocating' UK to US
Poet Sir Andrew Motion is to leave Britain for a new job in the US, saying being known as a former poet laureate in the UK can be "suffocating". He will become ... «BBC News, May 15»
8
Russia Slips Back to Suffocating Stagnation
With only rare exceptions, Putin was yet to force artistic expression and intellectual activity into a suffocating framework or try to rewrite history as he is doing now ... «The Moscow Times, Apr 15»
9
Police Warning Over Suffocating 'Sleeper' Craze
Schoolchildren are suffocating other pupils as part of a dangerous craze that has left at least one child in hospital and prompted a warning from police. «Yahoo News UK, Apr 15»
10
Warning to BBC over 'suffocating local papers'
The BBC risks suffocating local newspapers by being a “monopoly broadcaster”, the chancellor has said in a warning shot in advance of negotiations on its ... «The Times, Apr 15»
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