"smother a yawn" "muffle one's anger" "strangle a yawn"
"Stifle your curiosity"
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
"The child suffocated under the pillow"
He almost stifled her with caresses.
The air was stifling me and I longed for the open.
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