单词	stifling
释义	stifling /ˈstʌɪf(ə)lɪŋ / /ˈstʌɪflɪŋ/ adjective 1(Of heat, air, or a room) very hot and causing difficulties in breathing; suffocating: stifling heat the loft is stifling in summer... Lizzy had to leave the room which had become too stifling. I wanted to ask how she had endured the frustration, the exasperation, the stifling air, the imprisonment. The steady thump of drums beat a deadly rhythm in the stifling heat. 2Making one feel constrained or oppressed: the stifling formality of her family life... The hallmark problem of a monopolist is its stifling effect on innovation. The level of control exercised by the parties was absolutely stifling. Naturally, they can hardly accept Shen's stifling love. Derivatives stiflingly adverb [as submodifier]: a stiflingly hot day... The summers are stiflingly hot and the colony becomes infested with mosquitoes. And even when their conversations veer too far into existential, meaning-of-life territory, the sharp banter between the pair keeps their exchanges from becoming too mannered or stiflingly intellectual. Perhaps that was why I had enjoyed tormenting him the most out of all the boys - because his retorts were so completely opposite from anything I might have heard someone say to me in the stiflingly polite atmosphere of the palace.
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