unsuffocating

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unsuffocate

comparative more unsuffocating · superlative most unsuffocating

1. Not suffocating; allowing freedom and ease.

   Overhead the air is free and unsuffocating.

   1964, Raul S. Manglapus, Rodolfo Severino, Revolt Against Tradition, page 7

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   By the 1990s, while still championing active government, he aligned himself publicly with the prevailing orthodoxy that 'African countries [should] promote a strategy of privatesector led growth with government mainly concerned with providing the hospitable environment and unsuffocating regulatory framework.

   2011, John Iliffe, Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World, page 129

   For Gibreel, Allie Cone the vanquisher of Everest is the exotic other, is powerful independent unsuffocating Western woman.

   1996, Bruce Bennett, Jeff Doyle, Satendra Pratap Nandan, Crossing Cultures, page 150