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.
2. (often foll by: back) to stifle or choke: to gulp back sobs. 3. (intr) to swallow air convulsively, as while drinking, because of nervousness, surprise, etc. 4. (intr) to make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly. n. 5. the act of gulping. 6. the quantity taken in a gulp.