Both Uses of
stifle
in
Wuthering Heights
- She now put no further restraint on her tears; her breath was stifled by sobs.†
Chpt 22 *
- He sighed and moaned like one under great suffering, and kept it up for a quarter of an hour; on purpose to distress his cousin apparently, for whenever he caught a stifled sob from her he put renewed pain and pathos into the inflexions of his voice.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom