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ADJECTIVE:
  1. Very hot or stuffy almost to the point of being suffocating.
  2. Being of such a character or nature as to engender a feeling of stultification, repression, or suffocation: "The scholarly correctness of our age can be stifling" (Annalyn Swan).


OTHER FORMS:
stifling·ly(Adverb)


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