English-Spanish translations for stifling

• sofocante
  El ACTA alimenta una cultura de vigilancia e imputación sofocantes; el Estado te está observando. ACTA breeds a culture of stifling surveillance and imputation; the State is watching you.
  ¿O ampliar el ámbito de la sofocante normativa en vigor para las televisiones a todos los demás programas difundidos a través de la Red? Or to extend the current stifling TV regulations to all the other programmes which are broadcast via the Web.
  Un mundo tan sofocante y violento para la diversidad de los diferentes pueblos que sólo permite otra respuesta violenta, igualmente inaceptable: el terror. A world so stifling and violent for the diversity of different peoples that the only response is another kind of violence, one that is obviously equally unacceptable: terror.

Definition of stifling

• That stifles
• The act by which something is stifled

Examples

• The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.

Related words

• stifle
• stifled
• stifling heat
• smother stifle