suffocativeadj.
/ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪv/ Tending to suffocate; causing or inducing suffocation; attended by suffocation. Chiefly Medicine, esp in suffocative catarrh = capillary bronchitis.
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forstived13..
choked1499
stiflinga1560
smouldery1590
stiving1598
suffocative1605
suffocatinga1616
strangulating1822
gulpy1860
smothering1864
gulping1865
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 157 Violent catarres which are called suffocatiue.
1753 Chambers's 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.
1758 Monthly Rev. 19 507 Nervous suffocative asthmas.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. iv. 64 The fell Syroc's suffocative breath.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden ii. iii. 61 With quick sighs, and suffocative breath, Her interrupted heart-pulse swims in death.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 114 Sextons..are subject to..suffocative catarrhs.
1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 129 She has suffocative attacks, in which she can hardly breathe.
1908 G. W. E. Russell Threepenny Bits vii. 47 Forging their way through suffocative crowds.
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