asphyxiating

adjective3

1. •
   Causing asphyxiation; depriving living beings of the ability to breathe.

   • Jeune syndrome, or asphyxiating chondrodystrophy, is an extreme form of mixed pectus excavtum/carinatum and is very rare. — 2014
2. •
   Restrictive; stifling; preventing emotional or behavioral expression.

   • For Kate, Dick and the theatre company represent a world of imagination, sensuality, and emotional freedom that her asphyxiating religion cannot accommodate. — 2007
3. •
   Overwhelming; breathtaking.

   • Deeply buried emotional wounds were now on the surface; wounds manifesting themselves by the manner we were both breathing heavily, lest we pass out from asphyxiating emotional pain. — 2019