Synset:smothering suffocating
Examples:
- the choking June dust
- the smothering soft voices
- smothering heat
- the room was suffocating--hot and airless
Antonyms:breathing
Derivationally Related Form:suffocate
Inherited Hypernyms:smothering
Similar to:breathless dyspneal dyspneic dyspnoeal dyspnoeic