boiling vs stifling

boiling

adj
  • Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot. 

  • Of a thing: extremely hot or active. 

  • Of the weather: very hot. 

  • That boils or boil. 

noun
  • An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance. 

  • The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point. 

adv
  • Extremely 

stifling

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

  • That stifles. 

noun
  • The act by which something is stifled. 

How often have the words boiling and stifling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )