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stifled

verb

Meaning

  1. To interrupt or cut off.
  2. To repress, keep in or hold back.
  3. To smother or suffocate.
  4. To feel smothered etc.
  5. To die of suffocation.
  6. To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.
  7. That has been interrupted, suppressed etc

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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