Stifling
Full definition of stifling
Adjective
stifling
- That stifles.The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
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.