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.
1 lacking fresh air the house was very stuffy after being closed up for a month Synonyms breathless, close, stifling, suffocating Related Words airless, unventilated; fuggy; heavy, oppressive, thick Near Antonyms bracing, brisk, invigorating, refreshed, refreshing, restorative, reviving, sweet; ventilated Antonyms airy, breezy, unstuffy.