STIFLING as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • forceful prevention
   • putting down by power or authority
   Synonym(s)
   • crushing (what does crushing mean?)
   • quelling (what does quelling mean?)
   • suppression (what does suppression mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the suppression of heresy
   • the quelling of the rebellion
   • the stifling of all dissent
   Hypernyms(s) stifling is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • prevention (what does prevention mean?)
   • bar (what does bar mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • crackdown (what does crackdown mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • smother (what does smother mean?)
   • stifle (what does stifle mean?)
   • strangle (what does strangle mean?)
   • muffle (what does muffle mean?)
   • repress (what does repress mean?)
   • squelch (what does squelch mean?)
   • quell (what does quell mean?)
   • quench (what does quench mean?)
   • oppress (what does oppress mean?)
   • suppress (what does suppress mean?)
   • crush (what does crush mean?)
   • suppress (what does suppress mean?)
   • stamp down (what does stamp down mean?)
   • inhibit (what does inhibit mean?)
   • subdue (what does subdue mean?)
   • conquer (what does conquer mean?)
   • curb (what does curb mean?)
   • oppress (what does oppress mean?)
   • suppress (what does suppress mean?)
   • crush (what does crush mean?)

STIFLING as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
   Synonym(s)
   • sulfurous (what does sulfurous mean?)
   • sulphurous (what does sulphurous mean?)
   • sultry (what does sultry mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the summer was sultry and oppressive
   • the stifling atmosphere
   • the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm
   Similar To
   • hot (what does hot mean?)