affecting someone’s private life or interrupting them in an unwanted and annoying way

- They found the television cameras too intrusive.

- I decide to come out from my hiding, since eavesdropping seems too intrusive.

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A room or weather that is stifling is very hot and uncomfortable so that it seems difficult to breathe.

- the stifling heat of the tropics

A situation that is stifling stops you from developing your own ideas and character.

- an emotionally stifling relationship

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listening to or watching someone carefully because you are interested

- an attentive audience

- I sit there during the algebra lesson and take down notes attentively.

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smash/ blow etc something to smithereens

to destroy something by breaking it into very small pieces, or with an explosion

- The shop was blown to smithereens by the explosion.

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for fun, or for no particular reason

- It may seem weird but I've tried everything to make myself blush, just for the heck of it.

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(especially AmE) man‧tel‧shelf 

a wooden or stone shelf which is the top part of a frame surrounding a fireplace


- The clock on the mantelpiece struck 10.

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having an important, especially bad, effect on future events

- which was almost exactly the same as it had been on the night when Mr. Dursley had seen that fateful news report about the owls.

- fateful day/night/year etc

- The goalkeeper on that fateful day in 1954 was Fred Martin.

- When his rent was raised, he made the fateful decision to move north.

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