suffocate
Example Sentences
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Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.
"It was what was happening and the way things were being portrayed, where you were being suffocated and buried, and it felt like there wasn't a way out."
From BBC
It feels like I’m breathing all the air in the world—sucking it into me in big howling breaths—but I still feel like I’m suffocating.
From Literature
Director Mun doesn’t pursue this particular line of inquiry—there would seem to be little point but pain—but it does suggest something about the suffocating capacity of culture.
He had to watch his team be subjected to suffocating Covid restrictions.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
