Synonyms:
suffocation, asphyxiation
Meaning: killing by depriving of oxygen
Usage examples
The urgent symptoms are those of suffocation.
She was gripped with a sense of suffocation and panic
Kenneth followed him mechanically, with white face and a feeling of suffocation in his throat.
It is impossible for her to bear this suffocation any longer; she must have air; and in ungovernable rage she begins to lash out with her tail.
Surrounded by the comforts of middle-class respectability, and profoundly oppressed, even in his youth, by the Puritan ideals of the household, he sometimes experienced a sense of suffocation.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jaguar, License CC BY-SA 4.0
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