All 3 Uses of
stifle
in
Great Expectations
- Then both voices would seem to be stifled in a struggle, and then would break out again.†
Chpt 5 *
- The remains of my poor sister had been brought round by the kitchen door, and, it being a point of Undertaking ceremony that the six bearers must be stifled and blinded under a horrible black velvet housing with a white border, the whole looked like a blind monster with twelve human legs, shuffling and blundering along, under the guidance of two keepers,— the postboy and his comrade.†
Chpt 35
- The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom