smothering

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adjective

causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat (Freq. 1)
- the choking June dust
- the smothering soft voices
- smothering heat
- the room was suffocating--hot and airless
• Syn:
suffocating, suffocative
• Similar to:
breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal
• Derivationally related forms:
suffocate (for: suffocative)