stifling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaɪflɪŋ/

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Adjective

stifling (comparative more stifling, superlative most stifling)

1. That stifles.

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

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 365-366:

     The oppression of the cabin was stifling, and Evelyn had left her; she could not bear his absence, and she followed him.

Translations

that stifles

• Bulgarian: задушлив (bg) (zadušliv)
• Esperanto: subpremanta
• French: étouffant (fr)
• Galician: abafante (gl), sufocante
• German: stickig (de), erdrückend (de)
• Hungarian: fullasztó (hu)
• Italian: soffocante (it)
• Maori: pongere, pōngerengere
• Ottoman Turkish: بوغان (boğan), خانق (hanık)
• Plautdietsch: enj
• Portuguese: sufocante
• Spanish: sofocante (es)
• Swedish: kvävande (sv)

Verb

stifling

1. present participle and gerund of stifle

Noun

stifling (plural stiflings)

1. 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.

   • 2022 November 30, Philip Haigh, “Expansion plans to restore Washington to rail network”, in RAIL, number 971, page 64:

     Despite this, Mott McDonald's report says: "Following the loss of employment in mining and manufacturing opportunities across the area, a lack of connectivity and accessibility to new opportunities has led to the stifling of development and inward investment.

Anagrams

• filsting, fistling, flitings, liftings, slifting