Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat.
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Partick played a smothering game that at times imprisoned the Hearts players.
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There is no crowding and smothering of the fruit by the foliage.
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But no rain fell to ease the smothering oppression of the atmosphere.
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He had to battle against the sense of smothering, the universe contracting.
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She could not bear even the smothering thought of a divided kingdom.
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Chane held fast, forcing his wrist between her teeth, smothering any outcry.
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The smothering process most suggestively indicates how such things can be done.
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Once more the feeling of hopelessness came over her-seemedsmothering, stifling her.
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The smothering respectability of official Australia back then came back to sex.
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With Johnny not there the dark world was like a smothering tomb.
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Miriam flew to the rescue, smothering an involuntary laugh as she ran.
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Wharton pulled a stool alongside the woman's, smothering her hand in his.
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The acute reality of smothering to death settles in with cold certainty.
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It came up to our waists-toour armpits, choking and smothering us.
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A deep, smothering silence settled on the room, and several seconds passed.
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Her face was hidden, and all about her lay her smothering hair.
