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1. (adj) smothering, suffocating, suffocative
causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
"the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"

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1. smothering
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