STIFLING

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VERB
  • Definition - To interrupt or cut off.
  • Definition - To repress, keep in or hold back.
  • Example - The army stifled the rebellion.
  • Definition - To smother or suffocate.
  • Example - The heat was stifling the children.
  • Definition - To feel smothered etc.
  • Example - The heat felt stifling.
  • Definition - To die of suffocation.
  • Example - Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday's fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
  • Definition - To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.
  • Example - Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday's fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
NOUN
  • Definition - The act by which something is stifled.
  • Example - Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday's fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
ADJECTIVE
  • Definition - That stifles.
  • Example - The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
Words in your word
8 Letter Words
stifling 12
7 Letter Words
filings 11 fisting 11 fliting 11 lifting 11 sifting 11 listing 8 silting 8 tilings 8
6 Letter Words
filing 10 flings 10 flints 9 glints 7 isling 7 siting 7 tiling 7 instil 6
5 Letter Words
fling 9 gifts 9 finis 8 flint 8 flits 8 lifts 8 gilts 6 glint 6 lings 6 sigil 6 sling 6 sting 6 tings 6 intis 5 lints 5
4 Letter Words
figs 8 gifs 8 gift 8 fils 7 fins 7 fist 7 fits 7 flit 7 lift 7 sift 7 gilt 5 gins 5 gist 5 gits 5 ling 5 sign 5 sing 5 ting 5 inti 4 lins 4 lint 4 list 4 lits 4 nils 4 nisi 4 nits 4 silt 4 slit 4 snit 4 tils 4 tins 4
3 Letter Words
fig 7 gif 7 fil 6 fin 6 fit 6 ifs 6 gin 4 gis 4 git 4 sig 4 ins 3 its 3 lin 3 lis 3 lit 3 nil 3 nit 3 sin 3 sit 3 til 3 tin 3 tis 3
2 Letter Words
if 5 gi 3 in 2 is 2 it 2 li 2 si 2 ti 2
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