suffocatingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

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"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."

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

more suffocatingly (comparative) most suffocatingly (superlative)

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What does suffocatingly mean?

In a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates

Where does suffocatingly come from?

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

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