All 8 Uses of
stifle
in
The Two Towers
- A whip-thong curled round his legs, and he stifled a cry.†
Chpt 3.3
- He tucked them one under each armpit, and crushed them fiercely to his sides; a great stifling hand was clapped over each of their mouths.†
Chpt 3.3
- A queer stifling feeling came over them, as if the air were too thin or too scanty for breathing.†
Chpt 3.4
- For a while they felt faintly the sense of stifling which they had noticed when they first ventured into Fangorn, but it soon passed.†
Chpt 3.4
- The reek of them hung stifling in the still air.†
Chpt 4.2
- That day passed much as the day before had gone, except that the silence seemed deeper; the air grew heavy, and it began to be stifling under the trees.†
Chpt 4.7
- It felt stifling but not warm.†
Chpt 4.7 *
- I'm' — but suddenly his cry was stifled.†
Chpt 4.9
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom