Need another word that means the same as “stifled”? Find 3 synonyms and 30 related words for “stifled” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Stifled” are: smothered, strangled, suppressed
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “stifled” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
smothered | (of food) cooked in a covered container. A smothered cough. |
strangled | Held in check with difficulty. A strangled scream. |
suppressed | Held in check with difficulty. Suppressed laughter. |
airway | The passage by which air reaches a person’s lungs. He kept the man s airway clear and blood circulating. |
bound | Bound by an oath. An injury bound in fresh gauze. |
champ | Someone who has won first place in a competition. He champed on his sandwich. |
choke | Cause to retch or choke. We were the only team not to choke when it came to the crunch. |
clog | Dance a clog dance. Tourists cars clog the roads into Cornwall. |
clutter | Cover or fill (something) with an untidy collection of things. The attic is full of clutter. |
coagulant | An agent that produces coagulation. An injection of blood coagulant. |
death | The personification of death. He had two deaths on his conscience. |
drown | Deliberately kill a person or animal by drowning. His voice was drowned out by the approaching engine noise. |
emergency | Arising from or used in an emergency. He never knew what to do in an emergency. |
execute | Sign in the presence of witnesses. In some states criminals are executed. |
garrote | An instrument of execution for execution by strangulation. |
hanging | The practice of hanging condemned people as a form of capital punishment. Controversial cross party issues such as abortion and hanging. |
ligature | Bind or connect with a ligature. He ligatured the duodenum below the pylorus. |
muffle | A kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature. Muffle one s anger. |
neck | The length of a horse s head and neck as a measure of its lead in a race. We started necking on the sofa. |
obstruct | Deliberately make (something) difficult. The appellants were arrested and later convicted of obstructing the police. |
open | Full of small openings or gaps. An open shop employs nonunion workers. |
oppress | Cause to suffer. A system which oppressed working people. |
overawe | Impress (someone) so much that they are silent or inhibited. The eleven year old was overawed by the atmosphere. |
smother | Make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective manner towards them. Smother fires. |
strangle | Die from strangulation. They allowed bureaucracy to strangle initiative. |
strung | That is on a string. |
suffocate | Feel or cause to feel trapped and oppressed. The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor. |
suffocation | Difficulty in breathing. The country s slow suffocation under the ever increasing weight of red tape. |
throttle | Control an engine or vehicle with a throttle. The pitch of the engine fell as the driver throttled back. |
valve | Each of the halves of the hinged shell of a bivalve mollusc or brachiopod or of the parts of the compound shell of a barnacle. The aortic valve. |
welter | A state of general disorder. The attack petered out in a welter of bloody confused fighting. |
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