suffocate
verb (used with object)
to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
have been suffocating
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present perfect progressiveof suffocate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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It was penetrating, and a little more of it would have been suffocating.
From The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
Had they been caught in a calm the heat would have been suffocating; but Providence 60 favored them, and they sped along like a seagull toward their destination.
From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Edward Sylvester Ellis
