Definition of Suffocations

1. suffocation [n] - See also: suffocation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffocations

sufflate
sufflated
sufflates
sufflating
sufflation
sufflations
sufflue
sufflues
suffocate
suffocated
suffocates
suffocateth
suffocating
suffocatingly
suffocation
suffocations (current term)
suffocative
suffonsified
suffonsify
suffosion
suffossion
suffossions
suffragan
suffragan bishop
suffragans
suffraganship
suffraganships
suffrage
suffrages
suffragette

Literary usage of Suffocations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Architect and Building News (1903)
"The following year saw the percent of water-gas and the number of suffocations at the figurée last stated. In 1899 the percentage of water-gas in the ..."

2. The Mental State of Hystericals: A Study of Mental Stigmata and Mental Accidents by Pierre Janet (1901)
"His mother does not seem to have presented nervous accidents; his father, on the other hand, suffered from crises of suffocations (?), and his paternal aunt ..."

3. The Mental State of Hystericals: A Study of Mental Stigmata and Mental Accidents by Pierre Janet (1901)
"His mother does not seem to have presented nervous accidents; his father, on the other hand, suffered from crises of suffocations (?), and his paternal aunt ..."

4. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus by Paracelsus (1894)
"among the ancient and rival physicians no recipes are found against suffocations of this kind, still they one and all decline learning how to prepare these ..."

5. Diseases of the Spinal Cord and Its Membranes, and the Various Forms of by Charles Evans Reeves (1858)
"5th, 8 AM—The suffocations continued, particularly when he drank ; from time to time he had cramps in the thoracic extremities; more permanent contraction ..."

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