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Defenition of the word stifling

    • Defenition of the word stifling

      • Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity.
      • characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
      • forceful prevention: "suppression of liberal newspapers"; "quelling of the revolution"
      • forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
      • forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
      • characterized by oppressive heat and humidity

    Synonyms for the word stifling

      • airless
      • boiling
      • crushing
      • domineering
      • hot
      • muggy
      • oppressive
      • overpowering
      • overwhelming
      • quelling
      • roasting
      • sulfurous
      • sulphurous
      • sultry
      • suppression
      • unbearable

    Similar words in the stifling

      • hot
      • stifling
      • stiflings

    Hyponyms for the word stifling

      • crackdown

    Hypernyms for the word stifling

      • bar
      • prevention

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