Definition of "suffocative" [suf•fo•ca•tive]

• Tending or able to choke or stifle. (adjective)

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• "If such an environment remains suffocative, such dreams will only remain as hallucinations."
• "The surface of the body is pale or dusky, the lips are livid, while breathing becomes increasingly difficult, and is attended with suffocative paroxysms which render the recumbent posture impossible."
• "The relief its vapor affords in the collapse of chloroform anæsthesia, in which dissolution is imminent from paralyzed heart's action, is instantaneous, and its effect upon the spasmodic and suffocative sensations of hydrophobia are equally prompt."