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suffocatingly

suffocatingly adverb: in a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates.

Adverb

suffocatingly (comparative more suffocatingly, superlative most suffocatingly)

  1. In a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates
    • The hall was suffocatingly crowded.
    • [...] then, after about ½-mile of level through Pilning the climb is resumed at 1 in 100 for another three miles, including over a mile through a suffocatingly smoky single line tunnel (the down line being on a different and steeper location) to Patchway station.1962 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 246

Forms of suffocatingly

comparativemore suffocatingly
superlativemost suffocatingly

Origin of suffocatingly

From suffocating + -ly.

Questions about suffocatingly

What does suffocatingly mean?
Suffocatingly means in a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates.
What part of speech is suffocatingly?
Suffocatingly is an adverb.

Words near suffocatingly in the dictionary

  1. suffocater
  2. suffocaters
  3. suffocates
  4. suffocateth
  5. suffocating
  6. suffocatingly
  7. suffocatings
  8. suffocation
  9. suffocation mate
  10. suffocation mates
  11. suffocations

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