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say it: STAHY-fuhld
stifled is an adjective meaning "held in check with difficulty". It is pronounced /ˈstaɪfəld/ — STAHY-fuhld. It carries one recorded sense.
held in check with difficulty
“a smothered cough”
“a stifled yawn”
“a strangled scream”
“suppressed laughter”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stifled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.