Meanings of smother heat in inglés

The lassi was the perfect antidote to the smothering heat of the city.

They lay weltering in their blood in the smothering heat and dust and dirt.

I wakened with a sense of oppression, of smothering heat.

He slept in the woods, freezing by the lonely campfire, or sweltering in the smothering heat of the summer sun.

Through the smothering heat of summer for three days and nights the shrieks and groans of the wounded rose in endless waves of horror.

Despite the smothering heat (the rain didn't seem to have worked in the cooling-down department), the two went about their jobs with careful efficiency.

"Africa, madam," he uttered at last in a voice that lost itself in the clinging darkness and the smothering heat.