• v.
    ⦿suppress in order to conceal or hide
    lexical concept
  • muffle one's anger
  • repress a cry of fear
  • smother a yawn
  • strangle a laugh

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:muffle
  2. enl:repress
  3. enl:smother
  4. enl:stifle
  5. enl:strangle
wn:interlingual indexili:i29573

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • mufflesmother
  • mufflerepresssmotherstiflestrangle