All 3 Uses of
stifle
in
Ferris Beach
- she stifled a giggle
Chpt 14 *stifled = to suppress (prevent something from happening)
- It was nothing, but we had never forgotten the fast rhythm of our hearts and the way we both grabbed at each other with sweaty palms and stifled giggles until we were safe in the darkness of the Rhodeses' carport.
Chpt 18stifled = suppressed (prevented something or decreased its development)
- I could not shake the picture of Perry, her muffled screams as hands and mouths stifled and probed her, her body held and pinned, naked and helpless, an experiment, a specimen.
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom
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(2)
(stifle as in: the heat is stifling) to make breathing difficult or impossible -- often from heat or humidity