stifled Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb conceal or hide
    muffle; strangle; stifle; smother; repress.
    • smother a yawn
    • muffle one's anger
    • strangle a yawn
  2. verb smother or suppress
    stifle; dampen.
    • Stifle your curiosity
  3. verb impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
    stifle; suffocate; asphyxiate; choke.
    • The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
  4. verb be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
    stifle; suffocate; asphyxiate.
    • The child suffocated under the pillow
  5. adjective satellite held in check with difficulty
    suppressed; strangled; smothered.
    • a smothered cough
    • a stifled yawn
    • a strangled scream
    • suppressed laughter

WordNet


Sti"fled adjective
Definitions
  1. Stifling.
    The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.

Webster 1913