Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Suffocating vapor.
- A dialectal variant of
stiff .
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Examples
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They gloss over it because acknowledging it might attenuate the racial stife that they themselves stoke.
"We think the ad's authors were right to give voice to the students quoted, whose suffering is real." Ann Althouse 2007
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Steam and stife then permeate the building, and, to say the least, banish sweetness and comfort from the home.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various
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Sudan has turned around a struggling economy with sound economic policies and infrastructure investments, yet it still faces formidable economic problems, starting from its low level of per capita output and extending to its devastating civil stife.
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Sudan has turned around a struggling economy with sound economic policies and infrastructure investments, yet it still faces formidable economic problems, starting from its low level of per capita output and extending to its devastating civil stife.
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Excellency, or as You Pleass, Sir, for all thes Pepol are very stife and will not one [2] Nothing of what they Gott, on the Rack.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Some still remain, surviving years of peril, to repeat their deeds of daring upon new fields of stife; but many, alas,
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If we were bigots, etc, why would we spend out time, or money for gas etc, to tell others of the wonderful hope of life without hated, sickness, stife, war, etc?
unknown title 2009
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"And before all this debating leads to angry words and stife, sometimes we shold just agree to disagree."
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Probably a younger character, one that feels that God doesn’t love them because of all the stife they’ve been through in their life.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Asaya’s Review Forum 2009
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