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# stifling

«stifling» in Mova's school dictionary: **very hot and airless, so that it is hard to breathe** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (stifling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stifling means very hot and airless, so that it is hard to breathe. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifling/#m2)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stifling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.