The phrase "a suffocation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the act of suffocating or describing a situation that feels stifling or oppressive.
Example: "The weight of her expectations felt like a suffocation, making it hard for him to breathe freely."
Alternatives: "a choking" or "an asphyxiation".
I really wanted the yolk raised, but then I realized it was a suffocation hazard.
About 400,000 Simplicity drop side cribs were recalled for posing a suffocation hazard.
Psychiatrists believe increasingly that panic is the result of a misfiring in a suffocation alarm system at the base of the brain.
The toys were pulled because they posed a suffocation threat to young children; it was the largest toy recall in history, commission officials said, involving 25 million toys.
The band have hinted at possible meanings for the title, including "a) suffocation, b) sadness, c) numbness from extreme cold, d) a Cleveland late night TV host from the 1960s named Ghoulardi, e) all of the above".
Scientists also have proposed a suffocation false alarm theory, in which signals about potential suffocation arise from physiological and psychological centres involved in sensing factors associated with suffocation, such as increasing carbon dioxide and lactate levels in the brain.
But after enduring decades of severe injuries including broken and dislocated bones and a near suffocation from a throat wound on "The Young Master," Chan announced last fall that "Chinese Zodiac 2012" would be his last martial-arts action film.
Modern football is essentially a kind of suffocation, a battle for space.
Norwegian artist Terje Brofoss, AKA Pushwagner, conjures a dystopian suffocation in his graphic novel Soft City, with its large pages packed with repetitions of windows, people and vehicles stretching to infinity.
According to this model, panic attacks derive from a deranged suffocation detector [4] via pathophysiological mechanisms that differ from those underlying general or anticipatory anxiety.
