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Значения термина smothering на английском

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...
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You're suffocating, she said at a meeting yesterday for frustrated business owners.
Radio NZ
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London held nothing for her but suffocating memories she'd rather let go.
Burning up
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The place was suffocating, and the wind blew the alkali dust in.
Winston of the Prairie
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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
Использование термина smothering на английском
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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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