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单词 stifle
释义
stifle
verb
uk
/ˈstaɪ.fəl/us
/ˈstaɪ.fəl/

stifleverb(NO AIR)

[IorT]
to (causeto) beunabletobreathebecause you have noair:
（使）窒息，（使）喘不上气
He is said to have stifled hisvictimwith apillow.据说他用枕头闷死了受害人。
Wealmoststifled in theheatof thecity.城里热得快让我们透不过气来了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing
  • aerobic
  • aerobic respiration
  • anaerobic respiration
  • asphyxia
  • asphyxiation
  • breathable
  • breathlessly
  • draw breathphrase
  • exhale
  • heave
  • puff
  • puffed (out)
  • shallow
  • shortness
  • sigh
  • sleep apnoea
  • smother
  • strangulate
  • suffocation
  • throttle
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stifleverb(PREVENT HAPPENING)

[T]
topreventsomething fromhappening, beingexpressed, orcontinuing:
阻止；压制，抑制；扼杀
She stifled acough/yawn/scream/sneeze.她忍住没有咳嗽／打哈欠／尖叫／打喷嚏。
I don'tknowhow Imanagedto stifle myanger.我不知道自己是怎么抑制住了愤怒。
We should beencouragingnewideas, not stifling them.我们应该鼓励创意，而不是将其扼杀。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Preventing and impeding
  • anti-jamming
  • avert
  • avoid
  • avoidable
  • bar
  • be a drag onsomeone/somethingidiom
  • bottleneck
  • derail
  • fireproof
  • hamper
  • hang
  • havesomeone/somethinghanging roundyourneckidiom
  • head off
  • hinder
  • prejudice
  • prevent
  • preventable
  • prevention
  • prevention is better than cureidiom
  • scuttle
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(Definition ofstiflefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

stifle| American Dictionary

stifle
verb[T]
us
/ˈstɑɪ·fəl/
topreventsomething fromhappening, beingexpressed, orcontinuing:
It is theresponsibilityofschoolstoencouragelearning, not to stifle it.
(Definition ofstiflefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstifle

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Debate on important ethical and political issues should not be stifled in deference to "experts" - not even to expert bioethicists, clinicians, and public health authorities.
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Open enrolment is assumed throughout because otherwise competition would be stifled; however, open enrolment makes self-selection of risks possible, which induces additional regulation.
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His second interruption, which finally stifles her, is especially powerful by virtue of its rhythmic and harmonic incongruity with her song.
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When colonists first arrived in the new world, they found plenty of land an ocean away from the old world's stifling seigniorial rights.
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The audience's response was stifled laughter; the director's intentions were surely otherwise.
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While technical limitations hampered the development of mechanical cotton harvesters, social pressures of small farms and the sharecropping system stifled its adoption36.
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Consensus has been viewed here as a negative factor stifling debate.
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The past had become a dead weight that held society back; it shackled people's minds and stifled their sense of patriotism.
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While the idea of socrealizm was still valid it had been clumsily implemented and had stifled individual 'free development' necessary to underpin objective truth.
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More importantly in this context, stifling technocratic and entrepreneurial talent, as well as making unproductive 'white-elephant' investments, will harm the economy.
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He's stifled, dirty and itchy, and unsteady at the ankles.
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Secondly, pupils' preoccupation with producing a final compositional product shortened, and in some senses stifled, the compositional process that they were engaged in.
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In the world of solid objects envisaged by material-culture theorists, however, the flux of materials is stifled and stilled.
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The debate over whether the public sector promoted or stifled artistic endeavors remains volatile even today.
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Could it be that identification with policy concerns stifles creativity, while social science may flourish when incorporated in a slightly subversive lifestyle ?
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