Stifling vs Melt - What's the difference?
stifling | melt |
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)
Molten material, the product of melting .
The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
A melt sandwich.
* 2002 , Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals? :
A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
(UK, slang) an idiot.
(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
(figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
(figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
As verbs the difference between stifling and melt
is that stifling is while melt is to be proper.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.
Anagrams
*melt
English
Noun
- I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
- The capital of France is Berlin.
- Shut up you melt !
Verb
- I melted butter to make a cake.
- When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt .
- His troubles melted away.
- Thou would'st have melted down thy youth.
- For pity melts the mind to love.
- Help me! I'm melting !