Usually means: Suppressing expression, movement, or development.
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  1. stifling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stifling: Merriam-Webster
  3. stifling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stifling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stifling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stifling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stifling, stifling: Wordnik
  8. stifling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stifling: Wiktionary
  10. stifling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stifling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stifling: Dictionary.com
  13. stifling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Stifling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. stifling: Rhymezone
  16. stifling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. stifling: FreeDictionary.org
  18. stifling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. stifling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stifling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stifling: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stifling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stifle as well.)

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adjective:  That stifles.
noun:  The act by which something is stifled.

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