Both Uses of
stifle
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- His flesh shrank together as it felt the approach of the ravenous tongues of flames, dried up as it felt about it the swirl of stifling air.†
Chpt 3
- His soul, stifling and helpless, would cease to be.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom