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suffocative, a.|ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪv|
[ad. mod.L. suffōcātīvus, f. suffōcāt-: see suffocate v. and -ive.]
Tending to suffocate; causing or inducing suffocation; attended by suffocation.
Chiefly Med., esp in suffocative catarrh = capillary bronchitis.
1605Timme Quersit. iii. 157 Violent catarres which are called suffocatiue. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Suffocative catarrh,..the name of a disease, which consists in a copious eruption of a serous and mucous humor into the vesicles of the lungs. 1758Monthly Rev. 507 Nervous suffocative asthmas. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. iv. 64 The fell Syroc's suffocative breath. Ibid. ii. iii. 61 With quick sighs, and suffocative breath, Her interrupted heart-pulse swims in death. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 114 Sextons..are subject to..suffocative catarrhs. 1876Trans. Clinical Soc. IX. 129 She has suffocative attacks, in which she can hardly breathe. 1908G. W. E. Russell Threepenny Bits vii. 47 Forging their way through suffocative crowds. |