Definition of "stifled" []

• That has been interrupted, suppressed etc (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of stifle. (verb)

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• ""Look you," he said in stifled gutturals, turning to St. Vincent."
• "Thanks to the heroic Carter Phone Company making a phone other than black, and suing to break the government imposed monopoly, the communications industry has been making spectacular progress after begin stifled for three-quarters of a century."
• "JT_Lancer says: the communications industry has been making spectacular progress after begin stifled for three-quarters of a century."