[
UK
/ɐsfˈɪksɪˌeɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /æsˈfɪksiˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /æsˈfɪksiˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
tending to deprive of oxygen
asphyxiating gasses
How To Use asphyxiating In A Sentence
- The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion. Honeybees in Danger
- asphyxiating gasses
- The dust clouds raised by cars were still asphyxiating, but macadam was slowly bringing relief.
- Fiscal tightening is asphyxiating our economy, excessive fiscal adjustment is destroying our growth," he said. Spain's Rajoy Takes Aim at Deficit
- In fact, all the characters in the film feel so strongly about the agony of ordinary existence, and find their lives so asphyxiating, that escape, in whatever form it takes, becomes their oxygen.
- We face a unipolar world and the gigantic hegemonism of our neighbors, who have always sought to destroy this Revolution and now feel more emboldened by the idea of asphyxiating it, giving it the final blow, because their minds cannot tolerate the existence of the Revolution and what it has meant for this hemisphere, in their backyard, which today they seek more than ever to secure. Fidel Castro Women's Congress Address
- It was the distinctive sound of a duck asphyxiating on a franger.
- For a while, all this democracy seemed to be asphyxiating democracy.
- Apparently the thick, nonporous tape kills the wart by asphyxiating it or something.
- Once arrested, protesters, including five Britons, were taken to a police barracks where they were beaten again, sprayed with asphyxiating gas, threatened with rape and forced to sing fascist-era songs. Briton recalls the night Italian police beat up G8 protesters