I. adjective
1.
producing or seeming to produce suffocation
stifling heat
Synonyms: smothering, smothery, ||smudgy, suffocating, suffocative; compare humid , stuffy 1
Related Word: oppressive, overpowering; unbearable, unendurable
2.
Synonyms: stuffy 1, airless, breathless, close, stivy, suffocating, sultry
II. noun
Synonyms: repression 1, choking, extinguishment, quashing, quenching, smothering, squashing, squelching, strangling, suppression