transcription, транскрипция: [ staɪfəlɪŋ ]
1.
Stifling heat is so intense that it makes you feel uncomfortable. You can also use stifling to describe a place that is extremely hot.
The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
ADJ
2.
If a situation is stifling , it makes you feel uncomfortable because you cannot do what you want.
Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling.
...a stifling bureaucracy.
ADJ
3.
see also stifle