Suffocation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUFFOCATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of suffocating
• difficulty in breathing
• a feeling of being trapped and oppressed
• the state or process of dying from being deprived of air or unable to breathe
• The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.
• killing by depriving of oxygen
• the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation); to deprive of oxygen; to make uncomfortable by want of fresh air

Words related to SUFFOCATION

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How to use SUFFOCATION in a sentence

• The gas-shells came over regularly, making life for the men a kind of suffocation most of the time.
• The suffocation came with the swiftness of a thunderbolt, and he fell back on the pillow, his face already blue.
• The pavement is warm beneath us, and the first breath we draw gives us a sense of suffocation.
• Her face was ghastly white, and her heart was beating to suffocation.
• He had no thought for anything save to remove the biting pain from his nose and mouth, the suffocation from his lungs.
• The throng of courtiers, which, the day before, had been crowding to suffocation in the rooms of the Duke of Orleans, withdrew at once.
• I found accordingly that, though their depth does not exceed three hundred feet, suffocation must often have anticipated the other dreaded death.
• The meteor or purple haze which I saw was indeed past, but the light air that still blew was of a heat to threaten suffocation.
• Annie, screaming, started to her feet, then fell back, fainting, and black in the face with suffocation.
• He had distressing turns of suffocation, so that they were obliged to open all the windows and doors for the benefit of the air, and he long expected every turn would be the last.
• It was many hours ere Mark awoke, and when he did, it was with a sense of suffocation.
• In spite of all this, however, from the point of view of the Slavs of Bulgaria and Serbia, Turkish rule was synonymous with suffocation.
• Cahill came to Holy Cross to preach, and every part of the building was crowded to suffocation.
• So saying, he put the bread into his mouth, and in the act of swallowing it he was seized with a paroxysm of coughing and suffocation.
• Enoch was suddenly oppressed by a vague sense of suffocation.
• Men and women in the agonies of thirst and suffocation fought like tigers.
• Hardly had she settled down when she too experienced the same feeling of suffocation and the same involuntary opening of the jaws which Mr.
• I had never felt anything like this before and there was quite definitely about my eyes, my nose, my mouth, a feeling of suffocation.
• When it was nearly dawn she gave in, and lay huddled up on the bed, half-delirious with the pain and feeling of suffocation.
• The champion on this occasion excited much more interest than all the beauties of SHAKSPEARE, and the theatre was nightly crowded to suffocation.
• It was her wedding night, and bride and bridegroom died of suffocation owing to the scent of flowers and perfumes in the bedroom where they lay.
• He was so very big, so very unconscious, so very determined to lie with his face buried in the mud and meet his end by suffocation.
• She knew the livery, and her heart throbbed almost to suffocation, as it whispered that Mr.
• Her heart throbbed almost to suffocation, but she would not listen to its anguish.
• The smell of sulphur is so strong that horses on the streets stop and snort, and some of them are obliged to give up, drop in their harness and die from suffocation.

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