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Definition of Suffocatingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffocatingly
Literary usage of Suffocatingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hard Times: A Novel by Charles Dickens (1854)
"and other cries, arose in many voices from various parts of the densely crowded
and suffocatingly close Hall, in which the orator, perched on a stage, ..."
2. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"When we got fairly away from the caldrons of boiling fire, we seemed to be in a
gloomy desert, and a suffocatingly dark one, surrounded by dim walls that ..."
3. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"... and a suffocatingly dark one, surrounded by dim walls that seemed to tower to
the sky. The only cheerful objects were the glinting stars high overhead. ..."
4. Manual of Serum Diagnosis: Deep Breathing and a Complete System for by Bernarr Macfadden, Otto Rostoski (1904)
"... are frightened somewhat, does your heart begin to beat furiously and suffocatingly?
If you run, are you distressed for lack of ..."
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