suffocating

Scripts for private productions were subject to suffocating controls.

Receiving the guaranteed income had freed her from the suffocating sensation of constantly worrying about money.

Initially, their movements are stiff and restricted but, as Taylor describes suffocating relationships with emotionally-stunted men, they start to thrash and jerk their bodies.

The Trojans would unleash their suffocating press on defense, sparking an 11-0 run to end the third quarter.

A flashback shows the pair arguing over their living situation; he’s enthusiastic about relocating the family to the farmhouse, and she’s preemptively suffocating from seclusion’s effects on her work as an artist.