stifled

Definitions

Restrained or stopped from acting or expressing oneself.

Suppressed or prevented from being heard or voiced.

Suffocated or made unable to breathe properly.

Examples

She stifled a yawn as the long meeting dragged on into the afternoon.

The government stifled the protest by cutting off access to the internet.

Synonyms

suppressed smothered muffled repressed choked quelled restrained

Antonyms

encouraged released expressed fostered unleashed promoted vented