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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

stifled
    adj 1: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a
           stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed
           laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled,
           suppressed]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stifled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Stifling.] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. st[imac]fla
   to dam up.]
   1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the
      windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into
      the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of
      by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.
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            Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            I took my leave, being half stifled with the
            closeness of the room.                --Swift.
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   2. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to
      stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
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            Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which
            they do not reflect or transmit.      --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
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   3. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to
      conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to
      stifle passion.
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            I desire only to have things fairly represented as
            they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
                                                  --Waterland.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stifled \Sti"fled\, a.
   Stifling.
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         The close and stifled study.             --Hawthorne.
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Thesaurus Results for Stifled:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

arcane, bated, blurred, breathy, cabalistic, censored, choked, choking, classified, close, closed, concealed, croaking, crushed, cryptic, damped, dampened, dark, dead, deadened, drawling, drawly, dull, dulled, dysphonic, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, guttural, harsh, hawking, hermetic, hidden, hoarse, hush-hush, inarticulate, indistinct, latent, lisping, mispronounced, muffled, muted, muzzy, mysterious, nasal, occult, quashed, quavering, quelled, repressed, restricted, secret, shaking, shaky, smashed, smothered, snuffling, softened, sordo, squashed, squelched, strangled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, thick, throaty, top secret, tremulous, twangy, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable, velar

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