Stifled is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STIFLED in dictionary:

VERB:
• STIFLE, to smother
• make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate
• restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion)
• prevent or constrain (an activity or idea)
NOUN:
• a joint in the legs of horses, dogs, and other animals, equivalent to the knee in humans.
ADJECTIVE:
• Stifling.
• held in check with difficulty

Words related to STIFLED

stifle9 stifles10 stifling12

Words that contain STIFLED

unstifled13

How to use STIFLED in a sentence

• The atmosphere of the house stifled her, and Pompey had loved her father! It was scrupulously clean.
• After having dispersed some rebellious meetings and stifled the germs of an insurrection, Caesar believed that the summer would pass without any serious war.
• Each time some one went down there was a groan, stifled as instantly and surely as though the lips from which it came were quickly thrust under water.
• They had so closed up every avenue of air that those within were nearly stifled, and the youngest, of course, suffered most.
• She, who usually suffered in silence, uttered stifled groans, so awful was the anguish she endured.
• I have vigorously to defend my hat, stick, purse, and cigar-case, and am half stifled besides.
• The cry on her lips was stifled as his sought and almost touched them.
• The bell gave its usual signal, and as its stifled sounds were borne upon the ear by the howling winds, they sounded like a death knell.
• At last we turned back, and under the walls of some outbuildings I heard a smothered, wailing cry, so stifled that it was scarcely audible.
• A stifled gasp she uttered, and he lifted her into the room.
• Tears, and groans, and cries of despair were stifled by the threats and frantic cries of joy of the victors.
• That which is of the essence of religion, the sense of helplessness coupled with the sense of responsibility, is stifled.
• The atmosphere killed pretension and stifled shams.
• An innocent love was a feeling that was stifled in the poisoned atmosphere of my mind that night.
• It burst on striking the floor, and well-nigh stifled him with dust and sulphurous fumes.
• For four days he lay parched with fever, each breath drawn with a stifled inner rustling, numerous fine wrinkles traced in a network on his dried cheeks.
• Fear of the disgrace that would befall him if every one in the court knew of his conduct stifled the inner working of his soul.
• They should not permit their aspirations and inclinations to be stifled by such considerations, but have the courage to give freer rein to their inner longings.
• Fortunately, his purpose was discovered, and the fire he had kindled stifled at once.
• The close atmosphere of the home enveloped and stifled him once more.
• Nature, instead of being broadened and developed by art, is here stifled.
• There was a stifled groan, and the second soldier dropped to the floor.
• Almost stifled, his hands and face scorched by the intense heat, he ran up the stairs.
• But, stifled by the smoke, which poured in volumes upon them, the people in the fort were soon compelled to quit the ramparts to avoid suffocation.
• It was like a caress in payment for his exertions, and it almost stifled him.
• The temperature was here oppressive, and the lamps burned blue with some kind of gas that stifled the lungs.
• He had felt the approach of that betraying reflex for some minutes, but had stifled it.
• All that sigh contained of ambition silently stifled, of extinguished illusions and disappointed hopes, Athos alone divined, for he alone had heard that sigh.
• The relief from tension must have been great, but Coleman, bareheaded, raised his hand and, in instant obedience to the gesture, the cheer was stifled.
• He trembled violently, fear stifled him, his sight grew dim.
• He had stifled his passion for her, it seemed, and perhaps it was only by comparison that his friendship felt so cold and measured.
• Accordingly there was a ready welcome at the door of the old red house, which was somewhat gloomy looking, being on the north side of the hill, and a good deal stifled with trees.
• The need of money stifled the best that was in my nature.

Similar words containing STIFL without suffix ed

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