a verb suggesting "sweating" and "suffocating"

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Hi everyone.

Is there a verb suggesting "sweating" and being "suffocated" at the same time?

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Stifle ?

However that means 'being unable to breathe because of heat or lack of air' and 'suffocating' - not 'being suffocated'.
 
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so... does "Stifle" contain the sense of "sweating", too?
 

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so... does "Stifle" contain the sense of "sweating", too?
If 'it's stifling' somewhere, or 'I'm stifling' somewhere', then I am almost certainly sweating.
 

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Thanks a lot! :)
 
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