suffocating

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Rails was supposed to be the breakthrough for Ruby, but instead the near monopoly of Rails is suffocating it.

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Synonym of suffocation.

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noun

Synonym of suffocation.

adjective

That tends to suffocate the target(s); so overwhelming and lethal or life-threatening as to suffocate; suffocative.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for suffocating.

noun

Synonym of suffocation.

adjective

That tends to suffocate the target(s); so overwhelming and lethal or life-threatening as to suffocate; suffocative.

Example sentences

Rails was supposed to be the breakthrough for Ruby, but instead the near monopoly of Rails is suffocating it.

The size of the cubicle has to be quite large for it to not be suffocating though.

Honesty: Speech at TED or a megachurch comes with almost suffocating trappings of weight and import.

I hate to say it, but the only solution is suffocating and starving our own governments into submission.

Once you live next to a large body of water, being land-locked is suffocating.

The behaviourism of the time was suffocating and his ideas told us we could dream and think big.

The investment culture is the only place where there is a suffocating risk-averse attitude.

They want to kill Tivo by suffocating it - destroying the market that Tivo competes in by supplanting the products that Tivo complements.

There are 100 Senior Java Enterprise engineers for every Ruby-suffocating-Moores-law rockstar here.

The rules and administration were suffocating after having so much freedom.

Humans feel we're suffocating when there's too much CO₂, not when there's too little oxygen.

Freedom is fresh air and clean streets, because nothing is more inimical to our liberty of movement than being trapped at home because of suffocating smog.

Quote examples

All that talk about the magic "invisible hand of the market" is a pile of trash when monopoly is in place and turns that hand into a suffocating iron grip.

“His nose was pinched, but from time to time released, then water was slowly poured through the funnel on to the cloth which was sucked in by the suffocating man.” Still, Calas did not confess.

He said a lot of the same things mentioned in this article - about the suffocating culture, people "faking it until they make it", the tons of businesses being built on what he called, "bullshit and blue skies".

It's the "ok, I believe you, now build me something" (but still cheap enough to risk it and lose 100% in case of failure) So, how many scientists believed that you couldn't get a train to go faster without suffocating the people inside?