| 单词 | stifle |
| 释义 | stifle (once / 536 pages) 1v 2n 3v To stifle is to cut off, hold back, or smother. You may stifle your cough if you don't want to interrupt a lecture or you may stifle the competition if you fear losing. The verb stifle means “to choke, suffocate, drown.” It can describe a claustrophobic feeling, like getting smothered by kisses from your great aunt. At its most extreme, stifle means to kill by cutting off respiration. The metaphoric sense of stifle didn’t develop until well after the word was first recorded as a verb: "I can always tell — but never let on for fear of damaging his ego — that my boyfriend attempts to stifle tears during sappy parts of movies; his eyes well up at the corners and he’ll sniffle uncontrollably, claiming allergies." WORD FAMILYstifle: stifled, stifler, stifles, stifling+/stifler: stiflers/stifling: stiflingly, stiflings USAGE EXAMPLESCarrier also claimed last year that federal regulations stifled its profits and sent a list of energy efficiency rules it deemed burdensome to the IEDC. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Despite his life with Laura, Paterson’s world is a man’s world, a world of stifled masculine violence. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) University administrators protested that the legislation would stifle “freedom of speech.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of Syn|Hyper asphyxiate, choke, suffocate block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude block passage through 2v smother or suppress Stifle your curiosity Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper dampen excite, stimulate act as a stimulant choke, suffocate suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of conquer, curb, inhibit, stamp down, subdue, suppress to put down by force or authority 3v be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper asphyxiate, suffocate asphyxiate, smother, suffocate deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing strangle die from strangulation buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life n joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee 3Syn|Hyper knee articulatio, articulation, joint (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) v conceal or hide Syn|Hyper muffle, repress, smother, strangle conquer, curb, inhibit, stamp down, subdue, suppress to put down by force or authority |
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