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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]
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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.
[1913 Webster]
Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
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:
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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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Common Misspellings > |
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