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Distended vs Stifling - What's the difference?

distended | stifling |

As verbs the difference between distended and stifling

is that distended is (distend) while stifling is .

As adjectives the difference between distended and stifling

is that distended is extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen while stifling is that stifles.

As a noun stifling is

the act by which something is stifled.

distended

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distend)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
  • (biology) gravid.

    • stifling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That stifles.
  • :The heat was stifling ; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is stifled.
  • * 1857 , Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)
    • 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.

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