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Synonyms for stifled

The synonym for stifled recorded in this bank is suppressed, in the sense "held in check with difficulty". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for stifled

suppressedadjective, in the sense "held in check with difficulty"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and stifled carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

held in check with difficulty

A stifled yawn.

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The true synonym

suppressed

Same sentence, swapped: A suppressed yawn.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where stifled stands in the sentence above.

muted
hoarse
softened

Where stifled turns up in the game

stifled is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play stifled

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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