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STIFLED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Held in check with difficulty

Example:

suppressed laughter

Synonyms:

smothered; stifled; strangled; suppressed

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

inhibited (held back or restrained or prevented)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb stifle

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 Context examples: 

I got with much difficulty out of my hammock, having first ventured to draw back the slip-board on the roof already mentioned, contrived on purpose to let in air, for want of which I found myself almost stifled.

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

Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head; however, I escaped pretty well by sticking close to the stem of the tree, but was almost stifled with the filth, which fell about me on every side.

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