Synonyms of the word

stifling

• adj. That stifles.
• v. present participle of stifle.
• n. The act by which something is stifled.

bar

• n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
• n. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal…
• n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
• n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
• n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar…
• n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in…
• n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed…
• n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves;…
• n. The counter of such a premises.
• n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
• n. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type…
• n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
• n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
• n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
• n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity,…
• n. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants…
• n. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
• n. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically…
• n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
• n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal…
• n. (music) One of those musical sections.
• n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
• n. (soccer) The crossbar.
• n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones…
• n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
• n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
• n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
• n. An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
• n. A city gate, in some British place names.
• n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
• n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
• n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
• n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel…
• n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which…
• v. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
• v. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
• prep. Except, with the exception of.
• prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea…

crushing

• v. present participle of crush.
• adj. That crushes; overwhelming.
• adj. Devastatingly disheartening.
• n. The action of the verb to crush.
• n. A former method of execution.
• n. (in plural) crushed material.

hot

• adj. (of an object) Having a high temperature.
• adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.
• adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
• adj. (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.
• adj. Feverish.
• adj. (of food) Spicy.
• adj. (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
• adj. Stolen.
• adj. (incomparable) Electrically charged.
• adj. (informal) Radioactive.
• adj. (slang, of a person) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
• adj. (slang) Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
• adj. (slang) Sexually aroused; horny.
• adj. Popular; in demand.
• adj. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
• adj. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
• adj. Fresh; just released.
• adj. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
• adj. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something.
• v. (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
• v. (with up) To become lively or exciting.

prevention

• n. (obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.
• n. (obsolete) Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks; hence, precaution;…
• n. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
• n. (Medicine) Any measure such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc., intended to limit…

quelling

• v. present participle of quell.
• n. The act by which something is quelled.
• adj. causing something to quell or be quelled.

sulfurous

• adj. Containing sulfur.
• adj. (chemistry) Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its lower oxidation state.

sulphurous

• adj. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative spelling of sulfurous.

sultry

• adj. (weather) hot and humid.
• adj. very hot and dry; torrid.
• adj. sexually enthralling.

suppression

• n. The act or instance of suppressing.
• n. The state of being suppressed.
• n. A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.