smothering

Adjective
  1. Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat (synset 300269249)
    "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
    similar to: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic - not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
    same as: suffocating, suffocative

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