Asphyxiate vs Stifling - What's the difference?
asphyxiate | stifling |
That stifles.
:The heat was stifling ; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
The act by which something is stifled.
* 1857 , Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)
As verbs the difference between asphyxiate and stifling
is that asphyxiate is to smother or suffocate someone while stifling is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective stifling is
that stifles.As a noun stifling is
the act by which something is stifled.stifling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.
