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Meanings of stifling in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "crushing"
Examples for "crushing"
1
Political upheaval has often diverted attention away from crushing poverty and AIDS.
2
The MPLA was also seen crushing the opposition at the provincial level.
3
Major Campbell was stamping down something; and succeeded too in crushing it.
4
Repression has so far failed to instill crushing fear into the population.
5
Canola meal, a byproduct of canola crushing, is used in livestock feed.
1
The major side effect seen in the trial was bone marrow suppression.
2
Victims groups have slammed the move, saying name suppression laws are archaic.
3
It felt particularly poignant given the violent suppression of last year's protests.
4
In fact, Anastas was in Budapest during the suppression there in 1956.
5
He was in power, and prominent in the suppression of the Rebellion.
1
The Argentinian Football Association has been blamed for not quelling the violence.
2
Benomar brokered a 2011 transition aimed at quelling political turmoil in Yemen.
3
Slowly she concentrated on slowing her breathing and quelling her racing heart.
4
I waited out the surf of objections, profoundly disinterested in quelling them.
5
Zorindru shot him the same quelling glance that had so intimidated Milsindra.
Usage of stifling in inglés
1
So many issues at the polls today across the country, stifling democracy.
2
We want to hear your examples of big data stifling workplace creativity.
3
The cold air in the railway van grows thicker and more stifling.
4
The bees and wasps circled busily around humming in the stifling atmosphere.
5
She felt herself stifling in the wagon and flung aside the covering.
6
And the taxi was not merely stifling; it was like a trap.
7
The smoke was stifling, and the pains of dissolution in my heart.
8
The stifling heat in the theater had proved too much for him.
9
The place was stifling, and the pen almost melted in his hand.
10
They were near the Line now, in the stifling heat of storms.
11
I think it's really stifling when schools have such a religious influence.
12
The sentence was pronounced by artificial light in a stifling poisonous atmosphere.
13
In the little rooms of communication between great rooms, it was stifling.
14
The sense of enclosure became stifling as the slope began to rise.
15
At last the stifling heat and vapour reached an almost intolerable pitch.
16
Pitar had never forgotten his stifling days in that airless nursery school.
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Stifling through the time
Stifling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common