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Significados de stifling en inglés

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Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority.

represión

Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity.

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Uso de stifling en inglés
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So many issues at the polls today across the country, stifling democracy.
News.com.au
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We want to hear your examples of big data stifling workplace creativity.
BBC
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The cold air in the railway van grows thicker and more stifling.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
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The bees and wasps circled busily around humming in the stifling atmosphere.
Mother
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She felt herself stifling in the wagon and flung aside the covering.
The Fighting Shepherdess
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And the taxi was not merely stifling; it was like a trap.
Winner Take All
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The smoke was stifling, and the pains of dissolution in my heart.
Gulliver of Mars
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The stifling heat in the theater had proved too much for him.
Little Novels
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The place was stifling, and the pen almost melted in his hand.
Roger Ingleton, Minor
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They were near the Line now, in the stifling heat of storms.
An Iceland Fisherman
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I think it's really stifling when schools have such a religious influence.
The Irish Times
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The sentence was pronounced by artificial light in a stifling poisonous atmosphere.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
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In the little rooms of communication between great rooms, it was stifling.
To Be Read at Dusk
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The sense of enclosure became stifling as the slope began to rise.
Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
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At last the stifling heat and vapour reached an almost intolerable pitch.
Gulliver of Mars
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Pitar had never forgotten his stifling days in that airless nursery school.
Edge of Infinity
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Translations for stifling
Stifling a través del tiempo
Stifling por variante geográfica
Reino Unido
Común
Estados Unidos de América
Común
Irlanda
Común