asphyxiating

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Causing asphyxiation; depriving living beings of the ability to breathe.

   “Jeune syndrome, or asphyxiating chondrodystrophy, is an extreme form of mixed pectus excavtum/carinatum and is very rare.”

2. sıfat Restrictive; stifling; preventing emotional or behavioral expression.

   “For Kate, Dick and the theatre company represent a world of imagination, sensuality, and emotional freedom that her asphyxiating religion cannot accommodate.”

3. sıfat Overwhelming; breathtaking.

   “But according to Gauchet's thesis, Christianity has proven to be 'a religion for departing from religion' (ibid. 4); the gradual emancipation from and death of God has trained and conditioned us Westerners to withstand the asphyxiating terror of freedom.”

4. fiil present participle and gerund of asphyxiate

   “To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.”