'Stifled' definitions:
Definition of 'stifled'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed]
Definition of 'Stifled'
From: GCIDE
- Stifled \Sti"fled\, a. Stifling. [1913 Webster]
- The close and stifled study. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stifled'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame. [1913 Webster]
- Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion. [1913 Webster]
- I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled. --Waterland. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stifled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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