1. stifled

adjective. ['ˈstaɪfəld'] held in check with difficulty.

Rhymes with Stifled

• rifled

Sentences with stifled

1. Verb, past participle
If you contact her right away she might feel stifled.

2. Verb, past tense
Creativity and innovation get stifled when managers limit group interaction to work team meetings.

Quotes about stifled

1. I would rather be ashes than dust!I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.The function of man is to live, not to exist.I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.I shall use my time.
- Jack London

2. I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
- Veronica Roth, Allegiant

3. I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
- J.K. Rowling