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stifling
stifling
English
Adjective
stifling (comparative more stifling, superlative most stifling)
- That stifles.
- The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
Translations
that stifles
Verb
stifling
- present participle of stifle
Noun
stifling (plural stiflings)
- The act by which something is stifled.
- 1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)
- Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.
- 1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)