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Held in check with difficulty.
suppressed
stifled
strangled
inhibited
Smothered.
covered
suppressed
stifled
strangled
1
Legitimate political activities and speech by American citizens are not being
suppressed
.
2
In other areas unemployment and high supply are keeping the market
suppressed
.
3
Not that debate on this issue should be
suppressed
,
quite the contrary.
4
The Mississippi infant's virus, however, remained
suppressed
for 27 months without treatment.
5
Moreover, it effectively
suppressed
tumor growth in mice without major side effects.
1
The conflict in his mind again began; anger and failure
stifled
him.
2
Magee College's development has been
stifled
by institutional opposition and political neglect.
3
Until recently, I was feeling
stifled
by the tyranny of the new.
4
Timid yet violent, he stammered; the words were
stifled
in his throat.
5
The need of money
stifled
the best that was in my nature.
1
The good intentions of the social worker
strangled
by local authority bureaucracies.
2
Four of the victims were shot and the fifth
strangled
,
Caldwell said.
3
Ten years ago she could have
strangled
Bedelia Morse with one hand.
4
According to Moreira, Fernandes was present when Santos
strangled
the former model.
5
Geraldine Diver was
strangled
in her car in Dublin nine years ago.
1
The answer was slow and
smothered
;
and, of course, in the negative.
2
Plain dresses simply do not exist; everything is
smothered
with elaborate decoration.
3
Gradually it brightened and a
smothered
sob found place in the roses.
4
At times, she seemed
smothered
by the number of her charges, too.
5
I stopped, my dim spark of curiosity
smothered
by my common sense.
6
She heard their snarls, and beneath, the
smothered
whimpers of their victims.
7
Everything is
smothered
in the litter that is fated to accompany it.
8
But after we went to the farm I was
smothered
in ease.
9
In the tower, partially
smothered
by the storm, vibrated a shrill cry.
10
There is always a
smothered
hatred of the uniform and the flag.
11
And there was a rim all
smothered
in diamonds and blue stones.
12
The house lay silent, half
smothered
in a dark tangle of shrubbery.
13
But resolutely she
smothered
the sparks and bolstered up the pitiful lie.
14
No one else could have-But he
smothered
the wail in kisses.
15
That watchfullest showing no alarm, the absurdity of the suspicion
smothered
it.
16
But his voice was
smothered
by the shouts of the advancing multitude.
smothered
smother
·
smother in
smother cry
smother voice
smother exclamation
smother groan