Crossword-Solution: STIFLING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stifling | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Stifle |
We have 18 clues for the answer “STIFLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| choking | 5 answers |
| SUFFOCATING atmosphere | 6 answers |
| CLOSE atmosphere | 6 answers |
| SULTRY atmosphere | 7 answers |
| HEAVY atmosphere | 7 answers |
| ROOM, atmosphere of a badly ventilated | 8 answers |
| OPPRESSIVE atmosphere | 9 answers |
| BE OPPRESSIVE OR DISHEARTENING TO | 10 answers |
| suffocating | 10 answers |
| A CRUEL AND OPPRESSIVE DICTATOR | 11 answers |
| Sweltering | 17 answers |
| sweating | 18 answers |
| pishposh | 20 answers |
| sultry | 21 answers |
| banausic | 31 answers |
| plodding | 37 answers |
| Stuffy | 50 answers |
| Oppressive | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STIFLING (5)
The smoke at this corner was stifling, and Clark, a nimble fellow, having been handed a bucket of water, bathed Oak’s face and sprinkled him generally, whilst Gabriel, now with a long beech-bough in one hand, in addition to his crook in the other, kept sweeping the stack and dislodging all fiery particles.
And ever, after such an outpouring, oh, what a relief have I witnessed in those sinful brethren! even as in one who at last draws free air, after a long stifling with his own polluted breath.
The existence of these standards documents (and the technically inappropriate but politically mandated compromises which they inevitably contain, and the stifling language in which they are invariably written, and the unbelievably tedious bureaucratic process by which they are produced) can be unnerving to hackers, who are used to a certain amount of ambiguity in the specifications of the systems they use.
The boys huddled themselves together and sought the friendly companionship of the fire, though the dull dead heat of the breathless atmosphere was stifling.
Unaccustomed to action or responsibility,—full of horror at what she had seen, and afraid to inquire, or almost to imagine, how it had come to pass,—affrighted at the fatality which seemed to pursue her brother,—stupefied by the dim, thick, stifling atmosphere of dread which filled the house as with a death-smell, and obliterated all definiteness of thought,—she yielded without a question, and on the instant, to the will which Clifford expressed.
Quotes with STIFLING (3)
I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny. Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny thro…
There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude
We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1987–2019).