Synonyms:
smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed
Meaning: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
Usage examples
"Oh!" With a strangled sob Jimmy quickly left the room.
She strangled a fierce tide of feeling that welled up within her
If a fairy could be strangled, Grognon certainly would have done it in her rage.
She found him strangled, and with the handkerchiefs tied over his mouth and round his neck.
She tried to speak, but to Katy's dismay began to cry instead; and when the words came they were strangled with sobs.
And he helped her up, and when they got into the light of the hall he saw that she had, this time, successfully strangled her tears.
Seizing the lion with both hands, he put forth all his mighty strength and strangled the beast just as he had strangled the serpents in his cradle.
And the gentleman went on his way, but he hadn't gone far when the cow tumbled off the roof, and hung by the string tied round her neck, and it strangled her.
These serpents, gliding into his cradle, were on the point of biting the child when he, with his own hands, seized them and strangled the life out of their slimy bodies.
He little knew that, but for the conventions (which frown on the practice of murdering bishops), Percy would gladly have strangled him with his bare hands and jumped upon the remains.