stifled, ppl. a.
(ˈstaɪf(ə)ld)
[f. stifle v.1 + -ed1.]
† 1. Strangled. Obs.
| 1562 Cooper Answ. Def. Truth iii. 9 b, To make men forbeare stifled meates. |
2. In the ordinary senses of the verb: Suffocated, smothered, suppressed, etc.
| a 1643 W. Cartwright To Lydia iii. Poems (1651) 243, I hate a secret stifled flame, Let yours and mine have Voice, and Name. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 381 Such stifl'd Noise as the close Furnace hides. 1817 Shelley Revolt Islam vi. xii. 5 The blood..Of the dead and dying..Like stifled torrents, made a plashy fen Under the feet. 1820 Byron Mar. Fal. iv. i, Turbulent mutterers of stifled treason. 1845 Disraeli Sybil v. iv, ‘Hah, hah!’ said Morley, with a sort of stifled laugh. |
3. Devoid of fresh air, close, stuffy.
| 1824 Scott Redgauntlet ch. xiii, In a stifled and subterranean atmosphere. 1863 Hawthorne Our Old Home, Pilgr. Boston (1879) 175 We were shown into a small, stifled parlor. |