Another word for stifling | Synonyms for stifling

Another word for stifling

adjective

Oppressive due to a lack of fresh air:

airless, close, stuffy. See breath, open

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They had to break this stifling relationship off before it smothered all reason from them.
Those ahead of him grew more restless with the passing time, eerie quiet, and stifling heat.
"I'm coming," she replied, stifling a groan as she shrugged out of the sheet to stand.
To keep one another back, to breathe in that stifling atmosphere, to be unable to stir, and to await something unknown, uncomprehended, and terrible, was becoming unbearable.
The French princess, a lively young woman of no sense, died in the stifling atmosphere of the Spanish court, and from the attendance of Spanish doctors.

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