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