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suffocating - 19 thesaurus results
Main Entry: suffocate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: choke
Synonyms: asphyxiate, drown, smother, stifle, strangle
Antonyms: free, loose, let go
Main Entry: stuffy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: close, oppressive
Synonyms: breathless, confined, fetid, heavy, humid, muggy, stagnant, stale, sultry, thick, airless, stifling, suffocating, unventilated
Antonyms: airy, breezy, open, ventilated
Main Entry: sultry
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hot and humid
Synonyms: broiling, burning, close, hot, muggy, oppressive, red-hot*, scorching, soggy, sticky, stuffy, sweltering, torrid, wet, baking, mucky, sizzling, smothering, stifling, suffocating, sweltry
Antonyms: cool, dry
Main Entry: oppressive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hot and humid
Synonyms: close, heavy, muggy, overpowering, steam bath*, steamy, sticky, stuffy, sultry, torrid, airless, stifling, suffocating, sweat box
Antonyms: cool, mild, temperate
Main Entry: close
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: oppressive, humid
Synonyms: breathless, confined, heavy, moldy, motionless, muggy, musty, stagnant, stale, sticky, stuffy, sultry, sweltering, thick, tight, uncomfortable, airless, choky, fusty, stale-smelling, stifling, suffocating, sweltry, unventilated
Antonyms: cool, dry
Main Entry: sharp
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having strong affect on animate senses
Synonyms: acerbic, acid, acrid, active, astringent, austere, bitter, brisk, burning, harsh, hot, lively, odorous, piquant, pungent, sour, tart, vigorous, strong-smelling, suffocating, vinegary
Antonyms: bland, calm, dull, flat, low, mild, moderate, tasteless
Main Entry: asphyxiate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cut off air
Synonyms: choke, drown, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, strangulate
Antonyms: breathe, loosen
Main Entry: choke
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: smother, block
Synonyms: asphyxiate, bar, check, clog, close, constrict, dam, die, drown, fill, gag, gasp, kill, noose, obstruct, occlude, overpower, retard, squeeze, stifle, stop, stopper, strangle, stuff, stunt, suffocate, suppress, throttle, wring, congest, garrote, gibbet, strangulate
Antonyms: release, unblock, unconstrict
Main Entry: die
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pass away; stop living
Synonyms: be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk*, croak*, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket*, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate
Antonyms: be born, begin, live
Main Entry: drown
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: submerge in liquid; submerge and die
Synonyms: asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, wipe out, knock over, whelm
Antonyms: float, rescue, save
Main Entry: extinguish
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put out a fire
Synonyms: choke, douse, drown, out, quench, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, trample, blot out, blow out
Antonyms: light
Main Entry: go under
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fail, submerge
Synonyms: bankrupt, default, die, drown, fall, fold, founder, go down, sink, submit, succumb, suffocate, surrender, submerse
Antonyms: accomplish, achieve, succeed
Main Entry: kill
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deprive of existence; destroy
Synonyms: annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with*, do in*, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off*, put away*, rub out*, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out*, zap*, X-out, garrote, immolate, put to death
Antonyms: bear, create, give birth
Main Entry: smother
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: extinguish; cover, hide
Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, collect, compose, conceal, control, cool, cork, douse, envelop, heap, hush up*, inundate, kill, muffle, overwhelm, quash, quell, quench, rein, repress, restrain, shower, shroud, snuff, squelch, stamp out, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, surround, throttle, keep back, simmer down
Antonyms: light, start, uncover
Main Entry: stifle
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: prevent, restrain
Synonyms: asphyxiate, black out, check, choke, cork, curb, extinguish, gag, hush, hush up, kill*, muffle, muzzle, repress, shut up, silence, smother, spike, squash, squelch, stagnate, stop, strangle, stultify, suffocate, suppress, trammel, bring to screeching halt, burke, choke back, clam up, clamp down, constipate, cover up, crack down, dry up*, hold it down, put the lid on, sit on*, torpedo*
Antonyms: encourage, help, persuade
Main Entry: strangle
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: choke, stifle
Synonyms: asphyxiate, gag, inhibit, kill, muffle, repress, restrain, smother, squelch, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle, garrote/garrotte, quelch, shush, strangulate
Notes: strangle implies a focus on the result of this process, whereas strangulate focuses on the process itself
Antonyms: free, loose, let go
Main Entry: stultify
Part of Speech: verb2
Definition: inhibit
Synonyms: cripple, hinder, negate, prevent, smother, stifle, suffocate
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Main Entry: heat
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
combustible, ablaze, adiaphoretic, afire, alight, anhidrotic, ardent, baking, blazing, blood-hot, blood-warm, buldering, burning-hot, burnt, calefacient, calorific, candent, canicular, close, coctile, deflagrable, diaphoretic, diathermal, diathermanous, ebullient, estiferous, estival, euthermic, fervent, fervid, fiery, genial, glowing, heated, heating, hidrotic, hot, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, igneous, ignescent, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in a heat, in a perspiration, in a sweat, in flames, incalescent, incandescent, inflamed, inflammable, isotheral, isothermal, isothermic, kindling, like a furnace, like an oven, lukewarm, mild, molten, on fire, oppressive, piping-hot, plutonic, pyretic, red-hot, reeking, scumfished, semiustulate, smoking, smoking-hot, smoldering, sodden, stifling, stuffy, sudoriferous, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, sunny, sweltered, sweltering, sweltry, swullocking, tepid, thalpotic, thermal, thermic, torrid, tropical, unextinguished, unfrozen, unquenched, ustulated, volcanic, warm, warm as toast, warm as wool, white-hot
Main Entry: stench
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
bad, caprylic, corky, empyreumatic, feculent, fetid, foul, frowzy, fulsome, fusty, graveolent, halitotic, high, jumentous, maleolent, malodorous, mephitic, miasmatic, mucid, musty, nidorous, noisome, offensive, olid, olidous, putrescent, putrid, rafty, rammish, rancid, rank, reasty, saprostomous, smelling, smelly, stinking, stinky, strong, strong smelling, suffocating, tainted
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