Dictionary Entry

stifled

To interrupt or cut off.

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Common Phrases

. stifledcry stifled

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Poetry examples for “stifled”

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Broad gold fans brushing softly over dark walls,
Stifled uproar of night.

Could balm his hurt till unconsciousness
Stifled him and his great distress.

If now she knew, there might be kindness
Clamoring yet where a faith lay stifled.

The senses folding thick and dark
About the stifled soul within,
We guess diviner things beyond,

Broad gold fans brushing softly over dark walls,
Stifled uproar of night.

Elbows down rocks and, shouldering, thunders through.
Roars, howls, and stifled murmurs never cease;
Hell and its agonies seem hid below.

In the tomb of Siloa--the tear in her eye
She stifled: transfixed there it grew like a pearl,
Beneath the dark lash of the sweet Jewish Girl.

A little book,—and then a joy awakes
About each youthful heart,—with stifled cries,
And rubbing of white hands, and sparkling eyes:

A little book,--and then a joy awakes
About each youthful heart,--with stifled cries,
And rubbing of white hands, and sparkling eyes:

For power to speak; but still the ruddy tide
Stifled his voice, and puls'd resolve away--
Fever'd his high conceit of such a bride,