suffocating

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/

That tends to suffocate the target(s); so overwhelming and lethal or life-threatening as to suffocate; suffocative.
“It is difficult to conceive a state of society in which a sufficient number of disinterested and civilized and imaginative people would, even if given the chance, voluntarily undertake what would be to them the suffocating boredom of government.”
“On the sudden outburst of a great fire, the passages are commonly filled with suffocating smoke, and often with flame, which render the hydrants in the internal passages inaccessible, and generally cut off communication with superior reservoirs, and of this there have been frequent large instances.”

Synonym of suffocation.
“Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.”