Usually means: Oppressively hot, suffocating, extremely uncomfortable.
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  1. stiflingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. stiflingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stiflingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stiflingly: Vocabulary.com
  5. stiflingly: Wordnik
  6. stiflingly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. stiflingly: Wiktionary
  8. stiflingly: Dictionary.com
  9. stiflingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stiflingly: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a stifling manner; so as to suffocate.

Similar:
suffocatingly, asphyxiatingly, stifledly, stranglingly, smotheringly, strangledly, stultifyingly, chokingly, oppressively, stingily, more...

Opposite:
liberating, refreshing, invigorating, stimulating

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Similar:
suffocatingly, asphyxiatingly, stifledly, stranglingly, smotheringly, strangledly, stultifyingly, chokingly, oppressively, stingily, more...

Opposite:
liberating, refreshing, invigorating, stimulating



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