suffocative
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
suffocative (comparative more suffocative, superlative most suffocative)
- Tending or able to choke or stifle.
- Synonym: suffocating
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:
- suffocative catarrhs
References edit
- “suffocative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.