Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'stifle':
To feel smothered or suffocated by or as if by close confinement in a stuffy room.
To keep in or hold back; repress.
The joint of the hind leg analogous to the human knee in certain quadrupeds, such as the horse.
To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
To die of suffocation.
To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
Synonyms of word 'stifle' :
strangle
suffocate
choke
asphyxiate
knee
repress
asphyxiate
muffle
suffocate
smother
dampen
Antonym of word 'stifle' :
excite
stimulate
Usage of the word 'stifle' in Sentences :
stifled by a lack of service.
stifle indeed, the stifling of criticism of religion can be an effect of multiculturalism. stifle a yawn.
stifle even this form of objection now Cllr Byrne?
stifled by a lack of service.
stifled what a vivifying air.
stifled by a lack of service.
stifle this is really about is stifling dissent on a national scale.
stifle creativity
He effectively stifled all ambition of those below him, enjoining to himself all the offices of the Order.
stifled by bureaucracy, how will tomorrow's rural communities make a living?
stifle creativity.
stifleys can be, and are, often stifling.
stifle giggles at the pompous redundancy of the literary quotations.
stifle giggles at the pompous redundancy of the literary quotations.
stifle tinkering can be designed into products and technologies whether or not there is a law requiring them.
stifle local innovation.
Usage of the word 'stifle' in popular media :
Washington Post —
“"in the media our king says that the 'sky is the limit' for free speech, and in reality he lets his security agencies
stifle the press,....
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Wall Street Journal —
“billionaire philanthropist bill gates will step into the national debate over state budgets thursday with a call for states to rethink their health care and pension systems, which he says
stifle funding for public schools. ....
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