stifle
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(also, figuratively, transitive)(transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
Đồng nghĩa: asphyxiate, burke, scomfish, strangle, suffocate
- 2.
(excessive, transitive)(transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
The heat was stifling the children.
Đồng nghĩa: choke, gag, strangle, throttle
- 3.
(also, figuratively, transitive)(transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- 4.
(transitive)To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
Đồng nghĩa: gag, muffle, bequiet, bestill, damp, dampen, dull, gag, hush, hush down, hush up, muffle, mute, muzzle, quiet, quiet down, quieten, quieten down, silence, stifle, still
- 5.
(figuratively, transitive)To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
The army stifled the rebellion.
Đồng nghĩa: hinder, restrain, smother, suppress, throttle, impede, behedge, guard, govern, smother, bind, chasten, check, inhibit, contain, vanquish, cork, curb, bury, curtail, dampen, hamshackle, hold back, hold down, limit, repress, restrain, restrict, shackle, stay, stifle, stop, straiten, subdue, suppress, throttle, underbring, withhold, withstrain
- 6.
(figuratively, transitive)To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
Đồng nghĩa: cover up, hide away, occult, secrete, veil
- 7.
(transitive)(transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- 8.
(intransitive)To die of suffocation.
Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
Đồng nghĩa: asphyxiate, choke, scomfish, suffocate
- 9.
(excessive, intransitive)(intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
This heat is stifling.
Đồng nghĩa: choke, gag
- 10.
(transitive)To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(rare)An act or state of being stifled.
- 2.
(zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
Đồng nghĩa: stifle joint
- 3.
(veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
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The verb is derived from Late Middle English stuflen; further etymology. Also found in forstyflyd.