Synonyms:
smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed
Meaning: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
Usage examples
I smothered a laugh.
He must be smothered.
It was almost a smothered groan.
Tom's protest was smothered under Marjorie's hand.
"I wish to ask you if a person could be smothered by chloroform."
My page has not got a feather, but he shall have one, because he was not smothered.
"Do you think it possible that Mr. and Mrs. Langmore could have been smothered in that way?"
When the clock struck a wheezy nine Mona glanced at it significantly and smothered a yawn more than half affected.
Only a very few out of each million become "grown-ups"--the rest are eaten by enemies, or smothered in mud or sand.
I suppose, under the new system, but what difference does it make whether the poor thing is smothered or frozen to death?