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ˈsuffocating, ppl. a.
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1. That causes suffocation; stifling.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 389 If there be Cords, or Kniues, Poyson, or Fire, or suffocating streames, Ile not indure it. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 416 The hot winds blowing..with such a suffocating heat. 1764Harmer Observ. i. §16. 39 These hot winds are not deadly at Aleppo... They are very incommoding and suffocating in Barbary and Egypt too. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 172 The dense and suffocating odour of muriatic acid. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam i. xiii. 3 Would the Snake Relax his suffocating grasp. 1829Lytton Disowned lxxxiv, Throwing, as it were, in that exclamation, a whole weight of suffocating emotion from his chest. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xviii. 133 The dead suffocating warmth of the interior of an oven. 1879Froude Cæsar xxii. 391 The hills were waterless, the weather suffocating.
fig.1875Helps Soc. Press. viii. 101, I hope he told you of the suffocating interest I take in your present subject.
†b. suffocating damp = choke-damp. So suffocating shaft. Obs.
1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. (1723) 227 One is called the Suffocating, the other the Fulminating Damp. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 201 If faggots on fire..be thrown into a suffocating Shaft, it will rarify the bad air.
2. Accompanied by suffocation.
1748Anson's Voy. ii. v. 184 That uneasy and suffocating sensation. 1818–20E. Thompson Nosologia (ed. 3) 222 Convulsive suffocating cough. 1838Thackeray Yellowpl. Corr. iv. (1887) 26 She gev a suffycating shreek. 1900Westm. Gaz. 10 Sept. 6/2 A hoarse, suffocating sound.
3. That undergoes suffocation. rare.
1869Daily News 2 July, The mute agonies of the suffocating lobster before he is boiled alive in a pot.
4. as adv. = suffocatingly. rare.
1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. iii. ix. §1 It was suffocating hot.
Hence ˈsuffocatingly adv., so as to cause suffocation.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 434, I never felt more suffocatingly hot. 1854Dickens Hard T. ii. iv, The..suffocatingly close Hall. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate vi, Her heart suddenly waking from its torpor to beat wildly, suffocatingly. |