stifled

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

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