suffocatingly

English

Etymology

From suffocating +‎ -ly.

Adverb

suffocatingly (comparative more suffocatingly, superlative most suffocatingly)

1. In a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates

   The hall was suffocatingly crowded.

   • 1962 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 246:

     [...] 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.