English adjective: smothering | |||
1. | smothering causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | ||
Samples | The choking June dust. The smothering soft voices. Smothering heat. The room was suffocating--hot and airless. | ||
Synonyms | suffocating, suffocative | ||
Similar | breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic | ||
Antonyms | breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic | ||