stifling
 adjective
 abafante
EN The wind screamed over the Gulf and turned the water white, and the mangroves plunged like frightened cattle, and a fine sandy dust arose from the land and hung in a stifling cloud over the sea.
GL O vento bruaba sobre o golfo volvendo a auga branca. Os mangleiros precipitábanse como gando espantado, e unha fina poeira de area levantábase da terra pendendo sobre o mar nunha nube abafante.
 Fonte: PER (1190)
sufocante
EN Another time she might have made an effort to regain her composure; but her one thought was to quit the stifling atmosphere of the church and reach the open air.
GL Noutra ocasión tería feito un esforzo por recobra-la compostura, pero o seu único pensamento era abandona-la sufocante atmosfera da igrexa e saír ó aire libre.
Fonte: ESP (954)
noun
asfixia
EN We thrill, for example, with the most intense of "pleasurable pain" over the accounts of the Passage of the Beresina, of the Earthquake at Lisbon, of the Plague at London, of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, or of the stifling of the hundred and twenty-three prisoners in the Black Hole at Calcutta.
GL Estremecemos, por exemplo, coa máis intensa "dor agradable" ante o relato do Paso de Beresina, do Terremoto de Lisboa, da Peste de Londres, a matanza de San Bartolomeo, ou da morte por asfixia dos cento vintetrés prisioneiros no Buraco Negro de Calcuta.
Fonte: BUR (6)
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