Stifling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STIFLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate
• restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion)
• prevent or constrain (an activity or idea)
NOUN:
• the act of stifling
• a joint in the legs of horses, dogs, and other animals, equivalent to the knee in humans.
• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
ADJECTIVE:
• very hot
• uncomfortably hot and stuffy
• characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to smother

Words related to STIFLING

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Words that contain STIFLING

stiflings13 stiflingly17

How to use STIFLING in a sentence

• When this final danger flashed upon me, I became nerve-shaken for the first time since setting foot on the mountains, and my mind seemed to fill with a stifling smoke.
• The long, hot days at the foot of the hills did seem to the mountain-bred creature interminable and stifling.
• A ghastly sensation of stifling came over the Boy as he thought of a struggle down there under the earth and the snow.
• The sharp, stifling odor of burned powder began to fill the room, stinging the nostrils of Sinclair.
• So he must have sat just in that attitude, with that thick covering stifling him, all through the fiery heat of that long day.
• Out in the street again I took a deep breath of the summer air, which seemed sweet as in a meadow after that stifling room.
• And when I was sixteen we three girls were all sent up to California to Mills Seminary, which was quite fashionable and stifling.
• In absolute and general perfection lies stifling monotony and death.
• Margaret, through the heat and stifling air, worked steadily alone in the dusty office, the cold, homely face bent over the books, never changing but once.
• When this morning broke, My face was pinched, my hair was grey, And frozen blood was on the sill Where stifling in my struggle I lay.
• I am satisfying a yearning, and stifling a desire that could grow very strong if I let myself go.
• As they approached the equator, they fixed for Jordan a bed on deck where the air, even if it was hot, was better in motion over him than in the stifling state-room.
• And so, during a week of stifling heat, we moved slowly forward.
• The air was thick and stifling, and when he sat down in the deep window-seat he was gasping for breath.
• He heard the sick man stir feebly, and then the sound of his slow, labored breathing made itself felt, rather than heard, in the crushing, stifling silence.
• He was worn out by his cough and his illness and by the stifling heat, and breathed with difficulty, moving his parched lips.
• I then went to inspect the inside of the cage out of which she had come, but could scarcely put my head inside of it, the atmosphere was so hot and stifling.
• What was called virtue and piety had something stifling and choking about it, I used to think.
• Great drifts and clouds of smoke against the windows were urging in and stifling the air.
• After the hot, stifling, dusty glare of the yellow slope and the burning of the manzanita brush, the cool shade was a welcome change.
• The heat under the decks was stifling, and dust rose from the wheat in choking volumes, but the pace of the circling shovels was never allowed to slacken.
• The heat was stifling, and the sweat dripped from him, but he toiled on with a savage glee at his success.
• Small as it was, the blaze was, nevertheless, hot and stifling.
• During this car-bound time she held her loose stomach successfully, stifling its rebellion through the exertion of will.
• She recovered, by an effort that swelled her heart, strength to show nothing of the feeling of indignant rebellion that was stifling her.
• Now day by day the summer slips on by, Its stifling heat and gloomy skies will pass.
• She half expected he might pursue her, and make her come back to the hated work in the stifling store with his wicked face moving everywhere above the crowds.
• So pressing had been the danger threatening me that the atmosphere of the Castle seemed stifling in comparison with the keen night air.

Similar words containing STIFL without suffix ing

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