stifled, choked.

With the respiration stopped or impeded; suffocated; with the free passage obstructed; clogged.

That stifles or tends to stifle; suffocating, smothering, choking.

= smothery, adj.

suffocating.

Tending to suffocate; causing or inducing suffocation; attended by suffocation.

That causes suffocation; stifling.

Marked by gulps or choking.

Characterized by suffocation from smoke, etc.

That gulps; characterized by gulping.