Crossword-Solution: STIFLES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STIFLES | anagram | SELFIST |
We have 15 clues for the answer “STIFLES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Holds back, like a laugh | 1 answer |
| Puts down, as a revolt | 1 answer |
| Some sanctified figures | 1 answer |
| Stops, as a yawn | 1 answer |
| Sits (on) | 3 answers |
| Bottles up | 4 answers |
| Quenches. | 5 answers |
| Nips in the bud | 5 answers |
| Represses | 6 answers |
| Squelches | 6 answers |
| Quashes | 8 answers |
| CHEESE NIPS | 10 answers |
| Suppresses | 14 answers |
| Puts (down) | 27 answers |
| Checks | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STIFLES (5)
And that wretch stands there, and tries to make me doubt that my mother, who was an angel on earth, is an angel in heaven now! Don’t stop to talk about it! Come away! It stifles me to breathe the same air with her! It frightens me to feel that we are in the same room together!” Deaf to all remonstrance, she ran to the door.
And destiny, steadfast in trifles, Is steadfast for better or worse In great things, it crushes and stifles, And swallows the hopes that we nurse.
She comes to his feet with the treasures of the world—she bears him from palace to palace—by some unfailing witchcraft she entices the breezes to follow her {5} and fan the pale cheek of her lord—she lifts his armed navies to the very gates of his garden—she watches the walls of his _serai_—she stifles the intrigues of his ministers—she quiets the scandals of his courts—she extinguishes his rivals, and hushes his naughty wives all one by one.
The perfume you are burning stifles me.” Again there was a feast that night in the royal banqueting-hall; again I sat beside Phorenice on the raised dais which stands beneath the symbols of the snake and the out-stretched hand.
Cupid, to nothing constant long, Perched on the Harp attends the song, Or stifles with a kiss the dulcet notes: Now on the Poet’s breast reposes, Now twines his hoary locks with roses, Or borne on wings of gold in wanton circle floats.
Quotes with STIFLES (3)
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeat…
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. It's really, really true. A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1962–2024).