单词 | stifled |
释义 | stifled, ppl. a.|ˈstaɪf(ə)ld| [f. stifle v.1 + -ed1.] †1. Strangled. Obs.
1562Cooper Answ. Def. Truth iii. 9 b, To make men forbeare stifled meates. 2. In the ordinary senses of the verb: Suffocated, smothered, suppressed, etc.
a1643W. Cartwright To Lydia iii. Poems (1651) 243, I hate a secret stifled flame, Let yours and mine have Voice, and Name. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 381 Such stifl'd Noise as the close Furnace hides. 1817Shelley Revolt Islam vi. xii. 5 The blood..Of the dead and dying..Like stifled torrents, made a plashy fen Under the feet. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iv. i, Turbulent mutterers of stifled treason. 1845Disraeli Sybil v. iv, ‘Hah, hah!’ said Morley, with a sort of stifled laugh. 3. Devoid of fresh air, close, stuffy.
1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xiii, In a stifled and subterranean atmosphere. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home, Pilgr. Boston (1879) 175 We were shown into a small, stifled parlor. |

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