Found 3 items, similar to stifled.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: stifled
buntet
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: stifled
stifled
adj : held in check with difficulty;
“a smothered cough”;
“a
stifled yawn”;
“a strangled scream”;
“suppressed
laughter” [syn:
smothered,
strangled,
suppressed]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Stifled
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[=i]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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