Asphyxiating definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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The atmosphere of suspicious supervision was asphyxiating, after the disorderliness and warm humanity of her Irish home, after the run of the stables and the kennels, and the freedom of the village, after the chats with the pedlars and the beggars, and the borrowing and blowing of the postman's bugle, after the queenship of a host of barefooted gossoons, her loyal messenger-boys.

—The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes

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tending to deprive of oxygen

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Fixes several issues related to ROE firing off when player is bleeding, asphyxiating, or falling after being wounded by ROE — Voodoo Extreme
He knew now that the steamy vapour into which they had penetrated must be full of gas perilous to human life--that the emanations from the volcanic soil were asphyxiating, and he completely lost his head, and tottered feebly here and there But in a few moments this passed off, for he made a desperate effort to command himself, knowing full well that if he did not act his case was hopeless. — Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track
Combined with bronchoscopic aspiration of secretions it is the best method of treatment for poisoning by chlorine gas, asphyxiating, and other war gases Bronchoscopic oxygen insufflation should be taught to every interne in every hospital. — Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
The third type consists of lachrymal, or tear-producing, gas, which is used in the same way as the asphyxiating, but its effects are not fatal, merely putting a man out of action for a few hours. — Italy at War and the Allies in the West
It is really, however, the most efficacious of the three types, as it does not evaporate as readily as the asphyxiating gas. — Italy at War and the Allies in the West