stifling

stifling (comparative more stifling, superlative most stifling)

1. That stifles.

   The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.

stifling

1. present participle of stifle

stifling (plural stiflings)

1. 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.

• filsting, flitings, liftings