STIFLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stifled mean? 

• STIFLED (adjective)
  The adjective STIFLED has 1 sense:

1. held in check with difficulty

  Familiarity information: STIFLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STIFLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Held in check with difficulty

Synonyms:

smothered; stifled; strangled; suppressed

Context example:

suppressed laughter

Similar:

inhibited (held back or restrained or prevented)

 Context examples 

And yet I am stifled with desire to tell.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Having stifled my sobs, wiped my eyes, and muttered something about not being very well that morning, I resumed my task, and succeeded in completing it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I might easily have stifled it with my coat, which I unfortunately left behind me for haste, and came away only in my leathern jerkin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was aware of a pent, stifled feeling.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Jo lay motionless, and her sister fancied that she was asleep, till a stifled sob made her exclaim, as she touched a wet cheek...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Always inarticulate and stifled.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was involuntary, spasmodic, checked, and stifled—he noted that as he turned about.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As to my own will or conscience, impassioned grief had trampled one and stifled the other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jo lay long awake that night, and was just dropping off when the sound of a stifled sob made her fly to Beth's bedside, with the anxious inquiry, "What is it, dear?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was inevitable that Milton’s Lucifer should be instanced, and the keenness with which Wolf Larsen analysed and depicted the character was a revelation of his stifled genius.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)