All 7 Uses of
stifle
in
Jane Eyre
- This idea, consolatory in theory, I felt would be terrible if realised: with all my might I endeavoured to stifle it — I endeavoured to be firm.†
Chpt 2 *
- What my sensations were no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes.†
Chpt 7
- I was just beginning to stifle with the fumes of conservatory flowers and sprinkled essences, when I bethought myself to open the window and step out on to the balcony.†
Chpt 15
- As to my own will or conscience, impassioned grief had trampled one and stifled the other.†
Chpt 27
- I comprehended how he should despise himself for the feverish influence it exercised over him; how he should wish to stifle and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conducting permanently to his happiness or hers.†
Chpt 34
- As for me, I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.†
Chpt 34
- Having stifled my sobs, wiped my eyes, and muttered something about not being very well that morning, I resumed my task, and succeeded in completing it.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom