stifling

Definitions

1. 1

   That stifles.

   • The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
   • The oppression of the cabin was stifling, and Evelyn had left her; she could not bear his absence, and she followed him.
   • Who would go back to the stifling, wicked cities of civilized man when the mighty reaches of the great jungle offered peace and liberty? Not he.
2. 2

   present participle and gerund of stifle

3. 3

   The act by which something is stifled.

   • 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.

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