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English

Adjective

Of or pertaining to something stifled or suppressed.
:The stifled attempt at reform lead to further resentment.

Verb

stifled

fr:stifled vi:stifled

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stifled \Sti"fled\, a.
Stifling.
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The close and stifled study. --Hawthorne.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet stifled
adj : held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a
stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed
laughter" [syn: smothered, strangled, suppressed]

Moby Dictionary
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