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Showing words for STIFLING using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Stifling

stifling

7 Letter Words for Stifling

filings, fisting, fliting, lifting, listing, sifting, silting, sliting, stiling, tilings

6 Letter Words for Stifling

filing, flings, flints, glifts, glints, isling, liting, sigint, siling, siting, tiflis, tiling

5 Letter Words for Stifling

finis, fling, flint, flits, gifts, gilts, glift, glint, glist, glits, ifint, ignis, infit, intil, intis, lifts, lings, lints, sigil, sling, snift, sting, tingi, tings

4 Letter Words for Stifling

figs, fili, fils, filt, fini, fins, fist, fits, flit, gift, gils, gilt, gins, gist, gits, glis, glit, infl, init, inst, inti, intl, isnt, lift, ligs, liin, ling, lins, lint, list, liti, lits, nils, nisi, nist, nits, sift, sign, silt, sing, siti, slit, snig, snit, stlg, tigs, tils, ting, tins

3 Letter Words for Stifling

fgn, fig, fil, fin, fit, flt, gif, gin, gis, git, glt, gns, ifs, ign, inf, ing, ins, int, isl, isn, ist, its, lif, lig, lin, lis, lit, lst, nig, nil, nis, nit, sif, sig, sil, sin, sit, slt, stg, tgn, tig, til, tin, tis, tln, tng, tsi

Definitions for Stifling

[1] suffocating; oppressively close: the stifling atmosphere of the cavern.
[2] to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
[3] to suppress, curb, or withhold: to stifle a yawn.
[4] to kill by impeding respiration; smother.
[5] to suffer from difficulty in breathing, as in a close atmosphere.
[6] to become stifled or suffocated.
[7] oppressively hot or stuffy a stifling atmosphere
[8] (tr) to smother or suppress stifle a cough
[9] to feel or cause to feel discomfort and difficulty in breathing
[10] to prevent or be prevented from breathing so as to cause death
[11] (tr) to crush or stamp out
[12] the joint in the hind leg of a horse, dog, etc, between the femur and tibia

Words related to Stifling

muggy, humid, sultry, fetid, stuffy, confined, close, heavy, thick, breathless, stagnant

Words nearby Stifling

stiff-necked, stiffen, stiffener, stiffy, stifle, stifling, stigma, stigmasterol, stigmatic, stigmatism, stigmatist

Origin of Stifling

e11350–1400; Middle English < Old Norse stīfla to stop up, dam, akin to stīfr stiff

Other words from Stifling

sti·fling·ly , adverb
un·sti·fling , adjective
sti·fler , noun
un·sti·fled , adjective

Word origin for Stifling

eC14: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Stifling

fetid, humid, muggy, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, close, confined, heavy, thick, breathless, stagnant, unventilated