Synonym: crushing, quelling, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry, suppression. Similar words: linguistic, flint, stiff, testify, mastiff, justify, justified, mystified. Meaning: ['staɪflɪŋ] n. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority. adj. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity.
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31. In summer Venice is crammed with tourists and the heat is often stifling, but autumn is perfect for a short break.
32. Outside the smell from the brewery hung over the town, stifling as a warm pillow, making it difficult to breathe.
33. I was anxious to get out as it was stifling in there with no ventilation and all these people crowded in.
34. The sun was warm on my back, but the south-easterly wind took the edge off the stifling heat.
35. Like children, they squirmed in their seats, stifling giggles and gossip when I swept past them.
36. Tempers frayed in the stifling atmosphere of blaring speakers and flashing lights.
37. It was stifling in there; I was glad to get out.
38. Pirandello was much praised for his insight into the stifling dynamic of the traditional family.
39. The room was airless and putrid and stifling hot, the window lavender with either twilight or dawn.
40. There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
41. Apparently satisfied, the man leaned back, stifling a choking, coughing fit.
42. The weather is stifling. It looks like rain.
43. Heat is in stifling blanket layers.
44. I am stifling in this close room.
45. Stifling his distaste, Miles undressed the old man.
46. Allende next turned to stifling his domestic opponents.
47. Helen lives in a bare concrete - floored flat that is stifling in summer.
48. But wherever it came from, the conformism , and the stifling respect for authority that it produced, were the characteristics that most distinguished Sweden from most of the rest of Europe.
49. The place was stifling, full of smoke and the unique beery smell of an English pub.
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50. The little rooms were hot and stifling, and with Tigress there he found them suffocating.
51. Motivating oneself . Emotional self - control -- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness -- underlies accomplishment of every sort.
52. The atmosphere in the crowded hall became so stifling that two of the women passed out.
53. For example, on a stifling summer day after the air conditioning conked out in the strip mall where one of his two stores was located, the other merchants closed their doors and went home.
54. The fetal heart monitor shows that the stifling rate of late-deceleration is higher.
55. A grey miasma, neither cloud nor mist low in the sky and the atmosphere was stifling.
56. In recent years, however, the patent system has been stifling innovation rather than encouraging it.
57. He was stifling on D and got hustle rebounds on the offensive end.
58. A fine sandy arose from the land and hung in a stifling cloud over the sea.
59. I am sitting at the moment in a stifling hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown.
60. Study offered me entry to new worlds far from the stifling atmosphere of my mother's emotional blackmail. This led to my becoming an actor, a theatre director and, eventually, a playwright.
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