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Smothery vs Stifling - What's the difference?

smothery | stifling |

As adjectives the difference between smothery and stifling

is that smothery is tending to smother; stifling while stifling is that stifles.

As a verb stifling is

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As a noun stifling is

the act by which something is stifled.

smothery

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to smother; stifling.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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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