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# stifling

adjective (stifling)

«stifling» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Stifling means very hot and airless, so that it is hard to breathe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifling/#m1)
2. It can also mean making you feel trapped or held back. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifling/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales a room or day is stifling, heavy with heat, smoke or moaning

### Examples

- It was a stifling hot day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifling/#x1)
- The room was stifling, so we opened the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifling/#x2)
- The air in the cave was stifling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifling/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «stifling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifling/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«stifling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/stifling.html) on Mova free.