All 7 Uses of
stifle
in
The Age of Innocence
- If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling.†
Chpt 11
- On the other side of the hearth, from the sofa-corner where he supposed that she still crouched, he heard a faint stifled crying like a child's.†
Chpt 18
- He had no fear of being oppressed by them, for his artistic and intellectual life would go on, as it always had, outside the domestic circle; and within it there would be nothing small and stifling—coming back to his wife would never be like entering a stuffy room after a tramp in the open.†
Chpt 20
- The hotel's too stifling.†
Chpt 23 *
- In this state of abstraction he found himself, the following morning, waking to the reality of a stifling September day in New York.†
Chpt 25
- The room is stifling: I want a little air.†
Chpt 30
- He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom