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Significados de smothering en inglés

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

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Uso de smothering en inglés
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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
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Chane held fast, forcing his wrist between her teeth, smothering any outcry.
Thief of lives
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The smothering process most suggestively indicates how such things can be done.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
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Once more the feeling of hopelessness came over her-seemedsmothering, stifling her.
The Gun-Brand
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The smothering respectability of official Australia back then came back to sex.
The Guardian
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With Johnny not there the dark world was like a smothering tomb.
Cry from a Far Planet
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Miriam flew to the rescue, smothering an involuntary laugh as she ran.
Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College
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Wharton pulled a stool alongside the woman's, smothering her hand in his.
The Son of the Wolf
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The acute reality of smothering to death settles in with cold certainty.
Climbing Magazine
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It came up to our waists-toour armpits, choking and smothering us.
The White Waterfall
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A deep, smothering silence settled on the room, and several seconds passed.
Solar
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Her face was hidden, and all about her lay her smothering hair.
The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country
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