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stifled
[stahy-fuhld]
adjective
quelled, crushed, or ended by force.
The activist has been in and out of detention as she continues to call attention to her country's stifled uprising.
suppressed, repressed, or inhibited.
My foot slipped, and with a stifled shriek I found myself grasping desperately for a handhold.
One version of me grew up as expected, appearing as a confident adult to the outside world; the other remained a stifled, insecure child.
deprived of air or of the ability to breathe.
The light is mixed with the dust floating in the stifled hut, where the air inside never moves.
When I see that picture of the stifled refugees hidden in the van, I don’t understand the heartlessness that permits such a thing.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of stifle.
Other Word Forms
- unstifled adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of stifled1
Example Sentences
I imagined years of stifled conflict before my three children all graduated from high school.
Bolivia has the world’s largest lithium deposits, which have been left untapped because of tight state control that has stifled investments.
The current view in Washington is that under Biden, regulators stifled innovation and growth, drove an exciting new industry abroad and deprived ordinary Americans of new ways to build wealth.
"The chancellor must quit her slowcoach approach to the economy and finally drop her damaging national insurance hike, which has stifled business and hit high streets up and down the country."
He contrasted it with a “map of a curse,” showing a black block of countries stretching from Iran, through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, through which trade is stifled.
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