Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: versmorende
 - Amharic: stifling
 - Arabic: الخانقة
 - Azerbaijani: havasız
 - Bashkir: тынсыу
 - Belarusian: душна
 - Bulgarian: задушно
 - Bengali: stifling
 - Bosnian: zagušljive
 - Catalan: sufocant
 - Cebuano: nakasaksi nga hingpit nga nawala
 - Czech: dusí
 - Welsh: mygu
 - Danish: kvæle
 - German: erstickt
 - Greek: αποπνικτική
 - Esperanto: sufoka
 - Spanish: sofocante
 - Estonian: lämmatab
 - Basque: itogarria
 - Persian: خفقان
 - Finnish: tukahduttava
 - French: étouffante
 - Irish: stifling
 - Scottish Gaelic: stifling
 - Galician: sufocante
 - Gujarati: stifling
 - Hebrew: מחניק
 - Hindi: दमघोंटू
 - Croatian: začepljen
 - Haitian: antravè
 - Hungarian: fullasztó
 - Armenian: տոթ
 - Indonesian: menyesakkan
 - Icelandic: kæfandi
 - Italian: soffocante
 - Japanese: 息苦し
 - Javanese: grah
 - Georgian: ახშობს
 - Kazakh: душно
 - Khmer: ថប់ដង្ហើម
 - Kannada: ಗಟ್ಟಿಗೊಳಿಸಿದೆ
 - Korean: 질식
 - Kyrgyz: душно
 - Latin: obducunt
 - Luxembourgish: erstickt
 - Lao: ລູກ
 - Lithuanian: tvanku
 - Latvian: sagrāvis
 - Malagasy: fanakendana
 - Mari: лӱп-лӱп
 - Maori: stifling
 - Macedonian: задушување на
 - Malayalam: stifling
 - Mongolian: stifling
 - Marathi: stifling
 - Hill Mari: пӹц
 - Malay: menyesakkan
 - Maltese: ifixxklu
 - Burmese: stifling
 - Nepali: stifling
 - Dutch: verstikkende
 - Norwegian: kvelende
 - Punjabi: ਬੇਵਜ੍ਹਾ
 - Papiamento: tokante
 - Polish: duszno
 - Portuguese: sufocante
 - Romanian: sufocant
 - Russian: душно
 - Sinhalese: කඩා කප්පල්
 - Slovak: brzdiaci
 - Slovenian: ovira
 - Albanian: stifling
 - Serbian: гуши
 - Sundanese: stifling
 - Swedish: kväver
 - Swahili: namna ya kuishupazia shingo
 - Tamil: மறைத்தது
 - Telugu: stifling
 - Tajik: душно
 - Thai: stifling
 - Tagalog: mainis
 - Turkish: boğucu
 - Tatar: душно
 - Udmurt: ӝокыт
 - Ukrainian: душно
 - Urdu: stifling
 - Uzbek: stifling
 - Vietnamese: ngột ngạt
 - Xhosa: stifling
 - Yiddish: סטייפאַלינג
 - Chinese: 令人窒息
 
Synonyms, close and similar words for stifling
- muggy
 - stuffy
 - steamy
 - oppressive
 - sultry
 - sweltering
 - suffocation
 - suppression
 - stranglehold
 - close
 - breathless