stifle
verb (used with object)
to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle free expression.
stifler
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a word derived from
stifle.
Example Sentences
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“It’s a great stifler of emotional maturity because we use it to deal with all our problems, and we don’t deal with life on life’s terms,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2016
Lord Keeper Guildford was also a stifler of the proceedings against witches.
From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott
I hope for the best, though I am now in a sore pinch; yet thought is free—I think Handie Dandie and I may queer the stifler* for all that is come and gone.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
I go away with feelings that may be conceived but cannot be described, feeling within myself that desolating truth that my best affections have experienced this night a stifler!'
From The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
"Never—never did I swelter under such a stifler in my life."
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
