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Significats de suffocative en anglès

Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat.

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Examples for "suffocating"
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For Manchester City, the sense of history repeating itself must feel suffocating.
The Guardian
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In summer, they are sultry and suffocating; in winter, cold and dry.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies o...
3
You're suffocating, she said at a meeting yesterday for frustrated business owners.
Radio NZ
4
London held nothing for her but suffocating memories she'd rather let go.
Burning up
5
The place was suffocating, and the wind blew the alkali dust in.
Winston of the Prairie
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Partick played a smothering game that at times imprisoned the Hearts players.
The Guardian
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There is no crowding and smothering of the fruit by the foliage.
The Home Acre
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But no rain fell to ease the smothering oppression of the atmosphere.
The Way of an Eagle
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He had to battle against the sense of smothering, the universe contracting.
The Reality Dysfunction
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She could not bear even the smothering thought of a divided kingdom.
The Heart of Rachael
Ús de suffocative en anglès
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Dark, and very cold-Tugby'salmost apoplectic reply was delicious, no doubt, in its suffocative delivery.
Charles Dickens as a Reader
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Vapour from Lobelia suffocative; unwholesomness of perfumed hair-powder
The Botanic Garden. Part II. / Containing the Loves of the Plant...
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In an instant the eyes were closed, the cries were stopped, and the breathing was suffocative and convulsed.
An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health
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Suffocative a través del temps