Definitions for: Stifled

[adj] held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"

Webster (1913) Definition: Sti"fled, a.
Stifling.

The close and stifled study. --Hawthorne.

Synonyms: inhibited, smothered, strangled, suppressed