adjective. Very hot or stuffy.

adjective. Inhibiting, stultifying, or oppressive.

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

adjective. Describing something that stifles.

verb. Present participle of stifle.

noun. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

adjective. 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."

hot  

rifling  trifling  

airless  breathless  breezeless  choking  close  

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