Associations to the word «Suffocating»

Wiktionary

SUFFOCATING, verb. Present participle of suffocate
SUFFOCATING, noun. Suffocation

Dictionary definition

SUFFOCATING, adjective. Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats