Total Time. Depending on your individual digestive factors, the entire digestive process from eating food to excreting it via your stool can take between 24 and 72 hours, according to MayoClinic.com. Passing food from your stomach to your small intestine takes about six to eight hours.
stiÂ·fling. adj. 1. Very hot or stuffy: The air was stifling in the closed room. 2. Inhibiting, stultifying, or oppressive: The scholarly correctness of our age can be stifling (Annalyn Swan).stiâ²flingÂ·ly adv.. suffocating, close, oppressive, airless, sticky, muggy The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
Examples of stifle in a sentence. 1  trying to stifle a cry. 2  I had to stifle the desire to yell âStop!â. 3  Students at the school are stifled by the pressure to score high on tests.  Too many regulations stifle 1  innovation. something that stifles the growth of the plant.  I wish we could go outside instead of stifling in this tiny room.