stifling

stifling

English

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.

Translations

that stifles

French: étouffant (fr) Hungarian: fullasztó (hu) Maori: pongere, pōngerengere

Spanish: sofocante (es) Swedish: kvävande (sv)

Verb

stifling

1. present participle 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.

Anagrams

• filsting, flitings, liftings