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Asphyxiating meaning
Causing asphyxiation; depriving living beings of the ability to breathe. | Restrictive; stifling; preventing emotional or behavioral expression. | Overwhelming; breathtaking.
Synonyms of Asphyxiating
Example sentences (6)
Elsewhere in Italy, public transport workers demanded air-conditioned vehicles, and workers at a battery plant in Abruzzo issued a strike threat in protest at the imposition of working in “asphyxiating heat”.
Environmentalists also say that the transportation and injection of CO2 — an asphyxiating gas that displaces oxygen — could lead to dangerous leaks.
The Geneva Protocol regulates poisonous and asphyxiating to those its interwar framers had experienced.
A general concern over the use of poison gas manifested itself in 1899 at the Hague Conference with a proposal prohibiting shells filled with asphyxiating gas.
It prohibits the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods of warfare".
Unable to locate Quaid, Cohaagen shuts down the ventilation to Venusville, slowly asphyxiating its citizens.