Feeling oppressed or stifled, as if unable to breathe freely. She felt suffocated in the small, crowded room with no windows.
Describing an environment or situation that is overly restrictive or limiting. The suffocated atmosphere of the strict boarding school made it hard for students to express themselves.
Unable to breathe because of lack of air; smothered or killed by asphyxiation. The firefighters found several suffocated animals inside the burning house.