stifle 的 2 个定义
sti·fled, sti·fling.
- to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
 - to suppress, curb, or withhold: to stifle a yawn.
 - to kill by impeding respiration; smother.
 
sti·fled, sti·fling.
- to suffer from difficulty in breathing, as in a close atmosphere.
 - to become stifled or suffocated.
 
stifle 近义词
prevent, restrain
stifle 的近义词 40 个
- curb
 - muzzle
 - repress
 - silence
 - smother
 - squelch
 - strangle
 - suffocate
 - suppress
 - asphyxiate
 - burke
 - check
 - choke
 - constipate
 - cork
 - extinguish
 - gag
 - hush
 - kill
 - muffle
 - spike
 - squash
 - stagnate
 - stop
 - stultify
 - torpedo
 - trammel
 - black out
 - bring to screeching halt
 - choke back
 - clam up
 - clamp down
 - cover up
 - crack down
 - dry up
 - hold it down
 - hush up
 - put the lid on
 - shut up
 - sit on
 
stifle 的反义词 14 个
更多stifle例句
- “I regret it, I regret it, I regret it,” she says now of her decision to stifle her voice.
 - When the Packers drafted Adams, he assumed their nearly 10-year difference in age would stifle their relationship.
 - We felt that the nation was really stifled in every way by the Senators from Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina.
 - It clearly showed that granting any one arbiter, especially the government, the power to determine truth and falsehood holds the potential to stifle the truth in another way.
 - Edith Bunker kind of did as she was told, stifled herself when she was ordered to do so.
 - But the House approved a measure last month to stifle that proposed expansion.
 - Just as goals galore have defined this World Cup in Brazil, so too have the men whose job it is to stifle and stop those goals.
 - The NY Governor has set off a right-wing firestorm, standing accused of seeking to stifle free speech and political plurality.
 - Good technology tends to win out over time, despite all the attempts by the old guard to stifle it.
 - He again turns Medicare into a voucher program, a position he had to stifle in 2012, because Romney did not approve.
 - It is as difficult at first to stifle the resentment of a wrong done to us as to retain it after many years.
 - Up the stairway shot a wavering shaft of flame; the smoke that had been rising to the vaulted dome began to sink and stifle.
 - We need only open our eyes to see the unworthy means employed by sacerdotal policy to stifle the dawning reason of men.
 - And the carpets do seem to stifle me, though you don't believe it,' declared Sarah.
 - But you'll not know till Christmas night; so stifle your curiosity.