- verbstifle (verb) · stifles (third person present) · stifled (past tense) · stifled (past participle) · stifling (present participle)
- make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate:"those in the streets were stifled by the fumes"
- restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion):"she stifled a giggle" · "she stifled a desire to turn and flee" · "she gave a stifled cry of disappointment"
- prevent or constrain (an activity or idea):"high taxes were stifling private enterprise"
Originlate Middle English: perhaps from a frequentative of Old French estouffer ‘smother, stifle’.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate:
- restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion):
- prevent or constrain (an activity or idea):
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