stifled

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

stifled, a. 

 Stifling.  [1913 Webster]
"The close and stifled study."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

stifled

arcane, bated, blurred, breathy, cabalistic, censored, choked, choking, classified, close, closed, concealed, croaking, crushed, cryptic, damped, dampened, dark, dead, deadened, drawling, drawly, dull, dulled, dysphonic, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, guttural, harsh, hawking, hermetic, hidden, hoarse, hush-hush, inarticulate, indistinct, latent, lisping, mispronounced, muffled, muted, muzzy, mysterious, nasal, occult, quashed, quavering, quelled, repressed, restricted, secret, shaking, shaky, smashed, smothered, snuffling, softened, sordo, squashed, squelched, strangled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, thick, throaty, top secret, tremulous, twangy, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable, velar

ROGET THESAURUS

stifled

Faintness

N faintness, faint sound, whisper, breath, undertone, underbreath, murmur, hum, susurration, tinkle, still small voice, hoarseness, raucity, inaudible, scarcely audible, just audible, low, dull, stifled, muffled, hoarse, husky, gentle, soft, faint, floating, purling, flowing, whispered, liquid, soothing, dulcet, susurrant, susurrous, in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce, between the teeth, aside, piano, pianissimo, d la sourdine, out of earshot inaudibly, (ii) SPECIFIC SOUNDS.