单词 | stifled |
释义 | stifledadj.ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [adjective] > strangling or strangled strangledc1384 chokelewa1420 choked1499 worried1559 stifled1562 throttling1566 strangling1606 strangulative1648 throttled1677 frummagemed1699 bowstrung1821 1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 9v, in Apol. Priuate Masse To make men forbeare stifled meates. 2. In the ordinary senses of the verb: Suffocated, smothered, suppressed, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [adjective] > restrained bridled1567 retent1568 restrained1578 controlled1581 snubbed1583 retained1592 retentive1599 curbed1600 repressed1606 stifleda1643 suspense1667 light1740 reined-in1740 checked1793 reined-up1835 reticent1877 snaffled1877 directed1891 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > of feelings, etc. smothered1607 stifleda1643 smouldering1817 bottled1840 undercurrent1855 a1643 W. Cartwright Poems in Comedies (1651) sig. Q4 I hate a secret stifled flame, Let yours and mine have Voice, and Name. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 133 Such stifled noise as the close Furnace hides. View more context for this quotation 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xii. 134 The blood..Of the dead and dying..Like stifled torrents, made a plashy fen Under the feet. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. i. 106 Turbulent mutterers of stifled treason. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. iv. 53 ‘Hah, hah!’ said Morley with a sort of stifled laugh. 3. Devoid of fresh air, close, stuffy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > oppressively > and stifling or close smoulderingc1400 bloomy1620 choky1690 pothery1696 stifling1737 stifled1824 stuffy1831 smudgy1847 stived1847 stivy1849 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xiii. 308 In a stifled and subterranean atmosphere. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 252 We were shown into a small, stifled parlour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmasˈstifled ˈstifled adj. ΚΠ 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xviii. 336 Take a cord and fasten it to the pasterne of the stifled legge. < adj.1562 as lemmas |
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