What is the meaning of stifled?

Conceal or hide.
- usage: "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- synonyms: smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
Smother or suppress.
- usage: "Stifle your curiosity"
- synonyms: stifle, dampen
Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.
- usage: "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- synonyms: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke
Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen.
- usage: "The child suffocated under the pillow"
- synonyms: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate

Held in check with difficulty.
- usage: "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
- synonyms: smothered, strangled, suppressed

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