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SMOTHERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does smothering mean?
• SMOTHERING (adjective)
The adjective SMOTHERING has 1 sense:
1. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
Familiarity information: SMOTHERING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
Synonyms:
smothering; suffocating; suffocative
Context example:
the room was suffocating--hot and airless
Similar:
breathless; dyspneal; dyspneic; dyspnoeal; dyspnoeic (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)
Context examples
Since Capricorn is an earth sign, it could have felt like your air supply was being cut off—a smothering experience.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A NASA-led team has found evidence that the oversized planet WASP-18b is wrapped in a smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide and devoid of water.
(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)
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