Usually means: Depriving of essential oxygen supply.
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  1. suffocating: Merriam-Webster
  2. suffocating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. suffocating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Suffocating, suffocating: Wordnik
  5. suffocating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. suffocating: Wiktionary
  7. suffocating: Dictionary.com
  8. suffocating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Suffocating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. suffocating: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. suffocating: Rhymezone
  12. Suffocating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. suffocating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. suffocating: FreeDictionary.org
  15. suffocating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. suffocating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. suffocating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suffocating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suffocating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. suffocating: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See suffocate as well.)

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noun:  Synonym of suffocation
adjective:  That tends to suffocate the target(s); so overwhelming and lethal or life-threatening as to suffocate; suffocative.

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