Word Meanings - STIFLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STIFLED)

• Inaudible
• Low
• inarticulate
• suppressed
• muttering
• mumbling
• stifled
• muffled

Related words: (words related to STIFLED)

• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• INARTICULATELY
  In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.
• INARTICULATE
  1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. Without a hinge; -- said of an
• MUMBLING
  Low; indistinct; inarticulate. -- Mum"bling*ly, adv.
• INARTICULATED
  Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.
• MUFFLE
  1. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguishing folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up. South. The face lies muffled up within
• MUTTERINGLY
  With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.
• MUMBLE
  1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with
• STIFLE
  The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse. Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint;
• SUPPRESSION
  Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing,
• INAUDIBLE
  Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent. -- In*au"di*ble*ness, n. -- In*au"di*bly, adv.
• STIFLER
  See CAMOUFLET (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stifles.
• SUPPRESSIVE
  Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
• INARTICULATENESS
  The state or quality of being inarticulate.
• MUMBLENEWS
  A talebearer.
• SUPPRESSIBLE
  That may be suppressed.
• SUPPRESS
  1. To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell. Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger. Sir J. Davies. 2. To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice;
• MUTTER
  Etym: 1. To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complains or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl. Wizards that peep, and that mutter. Is. viii. 19. Meantime your filthy foreigner will
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• BEMUFFLE
  To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.