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suffocatingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English suffocating Middle English -ly English -ly English suffocatingly From suffocating + -ly.

Meanings

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:

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