Word

smothering, adj.
freq. cnt. 1

causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

smothering suffocating suffocative

sample sentences

"the choking June dust"
"the smothering soft voices"
"smothering heat"
"the room was suffocating--hot and airless"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

suffocate suffocate suffocate suffocate

semantic pointers