smothering

Adj.

1.

smothering - causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless" Synonyms: suffocating, suffocative

breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic, suffocating, suffocative