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Stilling vs Stifling - What's the difference?

stilling | stifling |

As verbs the difference between stilling and stifling

is that stilling is present participle of lang=en while stifling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between stilling and stifling

is that stilling is a stillion while stifling is the act by which something is stifled.

As an adjective stifling is

that stifles.

stilling

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare Low German Stelling, (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A stillion.
    • ----

    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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