- present participle of suffocate.
suffocating
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"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
"We can't take it anymore, we're suffocating," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
A franchise that used to cycle through mostly forgettable quarterbacks and relied on suffocating defense now hopes to win a Super Bowl by betting that its budding star can outscore just about anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
His operas would rip to shreds the comfortable and suffocating morality of the middle classes.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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