'Suffocate' in the Bible

but the worries and cares of the world [the distractions of this age with its worldly pleasures], and the deceitfulness [and the false security or glamour] of wealth [or fame], and the passionate desires for all the other things creep in and choke out the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And Jesus went with him; and a large crowd followed Him and pressed in around Him [from all sides].