smothering

The biggest catalyst of anger is a smothering sense of inertia - a collective sense of a state failure to confront monstrous crimes, deliver justice and prevent it continuing to happen.

So not counting out the Rams, but Philadelphia just has so many ways to beat you, and that Eagles defense is smothering.

The Ohio State defense matched the offense’s intensity, smothering Oregon’s run game and holding the Ducks to -26 rushing yards, their fewest in 16 years.

Philadelphia has so many weapons and a smothering defense.

A post-mortem indicated he had died from asphyxiation, caused by smothering.