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.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: drooping, flagging(adj) weak from exhaustion. drooping, droopy, sagging(adj) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping(adj) having branches or flower heads that bend downward.