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Meaning of STIFLED

Pronunciation:  st'Ifuld

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
 
 Synonyms: inhibited, smothered, strangled, suppressed
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sti"fled\, a.
Stifling.
      The close and stifled study.             --Hawthorne.
 

 

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