suffocative
English
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editsuffocative (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.