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adj. Very hot or stuffy almost to the point of being suffocating.

adj. Being of such a character or nature as to engender a feeling of stultification, repression, or suffocation: "The scholarly correctness of our age can be stifling” ( Annalyn Swan).

adj. Describing something that stifles.

v. Present participle of stifle.

Close: oppressive; suffocating: as, a stifling atmosphere.

n. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

adj. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity

""Well, it struck me, as I stood there with my head full of what we have been discussing, that the conditions of a girl's life of our own class are pleasant enough, but they are stifling, absolutely _stifling_; and not all the Emersons in the world will convince me to the contrary."

stifled    stifles    stifling   

impede    occlude    block    jam    obturate    obstruct    closeup    articulatio    joint    articulation   

stifle joint    horse   

stop    extinguish    deaden    quench    smother    die   

Eiffel    rifle    trifle