stifle

stifle teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: A bone disease of this region; To smother or suffocate
The heat was stifling the children.; A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses; To feel smothered etc
The heat felt stifling.; To die of suffocation
Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday's fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.; To interrupt or cut off; To repress, keep in or hold back
The army stifled the rebellion.; to smother; {n} the joint of a horse next to the buttock; {v} to suppress, conceal, extinguish; If you stifle your natural feelings or behaviour, you prevent yourself from having those feelings or behaving in that way. It is best to stifle curiosity and leave birds' nests alone = suppress; {f} hold back, restrain; crush, quell; smother, suffocate, asphyxiate; be suffocated; impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"; To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion; joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity; smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity"; To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust; To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration; joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee; To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame; conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"; under Horse; be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"; disapproval If someone stifles something you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing. Critics have accused the US of trying to stifle debate. = repress; If you stifle a yawn or laugh, you prevent yourself from yawning or laughing. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn = suppress; The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; called also stifle joint
stifle fire: put out a fire, cause a flame to cease
stifler: One who stifles; one who represses or limits
Stifling: stifled
stifled: Of or pertaining to something stifled or suppressed
stifled: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
stifled: Simple past and past participle of stifle
stifler: One who, or that which, stifles
stifler: {i} one who smothers or suffocates; one who suppresses
stifler: a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop"
stifler: a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop
stifles: plural of stifle
stifles: third-person singular of stifle
stifling: present participle of stifle
stifling: Describing something that stifles
stifling: {s} tending to repress; smothering, suffocating
stifling: forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
stifling: Stifling heat is so intense that it makes you feel uncomfortable. You can also use stifling to describe a place that is extremely hot. The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous
stifling: {i} act of smothering; act of suppressing
stifling: If a situation is stifling, it makes you feel uncomfortable because you cannot do what you want. Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling. a stifling bureaucracy. see also stifle
stifling: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
stiflingly: In a stifling manner
stiflingly: in a manner which smothers or suffocates; in a manner which represses