Stifling Definition

stīflĭng
adjective
Very hot or stuffy.
The air was stifling in the closed room.
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So close as to be oppressive; suffocating.
Webster's New World

That stifles.

The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
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Present participle of stifle.

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Stifling Sentence Examples

  • They had to break this stifling relationship off before it smothered all reason from them.

  • Those ahead of him grew more restless with the passing time, eerie quiet, and stifling heat.

  • The evening heat was stifling.

  • The church was hot and loud, the scents that overwhelmed her outside stifling.

  • The air was still and the heat stifling.

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