Search Result:stifled
Overview of verb stifle
The verb stifle has 4 senses
- smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress -- (conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn")
- stifle, dampen -- (smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity")
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke -- (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children")
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate -- (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow")
Overview of adj stifled
The adj stifled has 1 sense
- smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed -- (held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter")