STIFLED
smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed
(adjective) held in check with difficulty; “a smothered cough”; “a stifled yawn”; “a strangled scream”; “suppressed laughter”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
stifled (comparative more stifled, superlative most stifled)
That has been interrupted, suppressed etc
Verb
stifled
simple past tense and past participle of stifle
Anagrams
• fistled, stfield
Source: Wiktionary
Sti"fled, a.
Definition: Stifling.
The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
STIFLE
Sti"fle, n. Etym: [From Stiff.] (Far.)
Definition: The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind
leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the
knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.
Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or
kneepan.
Sti"fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stifled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stifling.]
Etym: [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. stifla to dam up.]
1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or
introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to
suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one
with smoke or dust.
Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. Dryden.
I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
Swift.
2. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the
breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect
or transmit. Sir I. Newton.
3. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal
from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are;
no evidence smothered or stifled. Waterland.
Sti"fle, v. i.
Definition: To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some
noxious substance prevents respiration.
You shall stifle in your own report. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition