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.