1 making it difficult to breathe normally:
The afternoon heat was suffocating.
2 restricting what sb/sth can do:
Some marriages can sometimes feel suffocating. * As a public figure, she had to endure suffocating publicity.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is suffocating a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, suffocating is tagged as adjective.
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