- present participle of suffocate.
suffocating
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"In 1936, a villager had a dream in which the Buddha came to him to ask to be freed from the earth, where he was suffocating," French project coordinator Sarah Coudry told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
The vitriol was all so loud, so suffocating, that it became the symbol of this race in the minds of the South Asian voters I spoke with in the Columbus metropolitan region.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
"I'm trying my best, it's all you really can do. It's kind of suffocating in a way. You see everyone else managing, and you feel like you're not."
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Scientists suspect that the combination of high heat and a suffocating deep-tropical air mass will be considered the worst humidity the region has experienced in the modern era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Matthias felt the suffocating dust clog his mouth as he struggled to turn his body over.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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