| suffocating 
 
 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:
 smothering, suffocative
 • Similar to:
 breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal
 • Derivationally related forms:
 suffocate (for: suffocative)
 
 
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