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stiflings

stiflings is the plural of stifling.

Meaning of stifling

Noun

stifling (plural stiflings)

  1. The act by which something is stifled.
    • 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.1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century, page 507

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Questions about stiflings

What is stiflings the plural of?
Stiflings is the plural of stifling.

Words near stiflings in the dictionary

  1. stiflest
  2. stifleth
  3. stifling
  4. stiflingly
  5. stiflingness
  6. stiflings
  7. Stifter
  8. Stifters
  9. stig
  10. Stigal
  11. Stigall

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