Crossword clues for stifled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stifled \Sti"fled\, a. Stifling.
The close and stifled study.
--Hawthorne.
Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stifled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stifling.] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. st[=i]fla to dam up.]
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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.
Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
--Dryden.I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
--Swift. -
To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit.
--Sir I. Newton. -
To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
--Waterland.
Wiktionary
That has been interrupted, suppressed etc v
(en-past of: stifle)
WordNet
adj. held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" [syn: smothered, strangled, suppressed]
Usage examples of "stifled".
Valentine took hold of them, sat them on her lap, and half stifled them with caresses.
His brothers and sisters had already taken all the surrounding lands, and he stifled, threatened also, as it were, with famine, and ever sought the broad expanse that he dreamt of, where he might grow and reap his bread.
He stifled a coldness in the small of his back that threatened to translate into a visible tremble.
Blake stifled a pang for his own nurse, who had been dearer than his mother when he was young.
Already her body was longing for the warmth of his, but she stifled its demands.
Catherine stifled her memory of that morning kiss, reciting the familiar litany under her breath: Laura deserved a good husband, and Rockhurst was the best.
Inside the studio there was a shuffling of heavy feet, a rustling of hands groping in the dark, a clatter of things being tumbled about, accompanied by stifled objurgations.
She was so utterly alone, she felt so stifled in that sleepy abode, the exuberance of youth seethed so strongly within her, her heart craved so desperately for friendship!
She was to have taken the veil, but she felt stifled the moment she entered a church.
And then the anguish which they left unmentioned, but which they could not hide from one another, racked and stifled them, left them heaving distressfully with painful sighs.
He, who had had the whole country-side to roll about in, felt stifled in the narrow space where he now had to keep quiet.
Bongrand, who came to look at it, caught the painter in his big arms, and stifled him with embraces, his eyes full of tears.
He stifled his initial shock, reached out, and again drew her against him.
If she was going to come to her senses, if she was to escape becoming the twisted, tormented creature that Teani had been, she must rediscover the stifled personality she had been trained since childhood to hide.
Suddenly stifled by the dark warmth and the blankets, she pushed herself erect.