a. [ad. mod.L. suffōcātīvus, f. suffōcāt-: see SUFFOCATE v. and -IVE.] Tending to suffocate; causing or inducing suffocation; attended by suffocation.

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  Chiefly Med., esp. in s. catarrh = capillary bronchitis.

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1605.  Timme, Quersit., III. 157. Violent catarres which are called suffocatiue.

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1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., Suffocative catarrh,… the name of a disease, which consists in a copious eruption of a serous and mucous humor into the vesicles of the lungs.

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1758.  Monthly Rev., 507. Nervous suffocative asthmas.

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1791.  E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. iv. 64. The fell Syroc’s suffocative breath. Ibid., II. iii. 61. With quick sighs, and suffocative breath, Her interrupted heart-pulse swims in death.

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1869.  E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3), 114. Sextons … are subject to … suffocative catarrhs.

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1876.  Trans. Clinical Soc., IX. 129. She has suffocative attacks, in which she can hardly breathe.

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1908.  G. W. E. Russell, Threepenny Bits, vii. 47. Forging their way through suffocative crowds.

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