Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: stifled
IPA transcription: [st'aɪfəld]
Pronunciations of stifled
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed
    Meaning: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
Usage examples
  • Everything which had been hastily stifled was moving and fermenting.
  • It can't be smoking now," gasped Nan, stifled with rain and laughter.
  • She stifled a laugh of prophetic triumph and sauntered over to Beppo.
  • All the good impulses I had ever stifled were quickened to life by the thought of her.
  • Sometimes the Oysters are stifled in their "beds" by other Oysters settling and growing over them.
  • Then his chest heaved, and he drew a long breath, like a man who feels almost stifled by some internal oppression.
  • Thus stifled ability in the lower orders, and apathy or pampered incapacity in the higher, unite to deprive society of its natural leaders.
  • He looked up, evidently rather startled, and saw the face of Lilith in the air: He gave a stifled cry threw himself on his knees with his arms stretched towards her, and moaned--
  • The master calls forth notes we know not of. Memories long forgotten all come back to us with a new significance. Hopes stifled by fear, yearnings that we dare not recognise, stand forth in new glory.
  • How could a man who so eloquently attracts people toward honors, permit that the very aspiration toward that which was great be crushed together with rank and distinction for services, and, with the destruction of all degrees, "the motives for all high undertakings be stifled"?
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