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as in strangled
to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable air
unfortunately, the robbers were stifled when they got trapped in the airless bank vault
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as in swallowed
to refrain from openly showing or uttering
stifled a yawn
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as in muffled
to deaden the sound of
he stifled a cough with his hand
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“Stifled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stifled. Accessed 3 Nov. 2024.
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