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stifled

/stahy-fuhld/US // ˈstaɪ fəld //

窒息的,窒息,压抑的,窒息而死

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : quelled, crushed, or ended by force: The activist has been in and out of detention as she continues to call attention to her country's stifled uprising.
    • : suppressed, repressed, or inhibited: My foot slipped, and with a stifled shriek I found myself grasping desperately for a handhold.One version of me grew up as expected, appearing as a confident adult to the outside world; the other remained a stifled, insecure child.
    • : deprived of air or of the ability to breathe: The light is mixed with the dust floating in the stifled hut, where the air inside never moves.When I see that picture of the stifled refugees hidden in the van, I don’t understand the heartlessness that permits such a thing.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbprevent, restrain
Synonyms
curb路边,遏止,路边的,马路牙子muzzle枪口,炮口,钳制,枪口上repress压迫,压制,镇压,压抑silence沉默,缄默,肃静,沉默寡言smother窒息,扼杀,封杀,闷死squelch静音,静噪,压制,压抑strangle掐死,扼杀,绞杀,掐死你suffocate窒息,窒息而死,噎死,窒息而亡suppress镇压,打压,压制,抑制asphyxiate窒息,窒息而死,窒息性,窒息而亡burke伯克,布克,布尔克,布雷克check检查,检查一下choke窒息,卡住,噎住,噎住了constipate便秘,大便秘结,便秘者,便秘的cork软木,软木塞,科克,木塞extinguish熄灭,扑灭,灭绝,灭亡gag插科打诨,噱头,诨名,诨号hush嘘嘘,嘘寒问暖,嘘嘘声,嘘kill杀死,杀害,杀了,杀掉muffle闷棍,闷响,闷闷不乐,闷声发大财spike尖顶,尖峰,尖峰时刻,尖锐湿疣squash壁球,压扁,压扁机,压碎stagnate停滞不前,停滞,停滞不前的stop停止,停下来,停,停住stultify僵化,窒息,停滞不前,僵化的torpedo鱼雷,水雷,舰艇,舰艇导弹trammel捣蛋鬼,捣乱者,捣鼓,捣毁black out晕倒,昏昏沉沉,昏昏欲睡,昏迷不醒bring to screeching halt戛然而止,戛然停止,戛然止步,嘎然而止choke back窒息而死,噎住了,窒息而亡,窒息而退clam up闭口不言,闭口不谈,蜷缩,闭口不提clamp down钳制,钳压,钳住,钳制下来cover up掩饰,遮掩,掩盖,隐瞒crack down严厉打击,严打,严厉制裁,打击dry up干涸,涸泽而渔,阴干,干枯hold it down按住它,压住它,按住,按住不放hush up闭口不言,闭上嘴巴,闭口不谈,嘘嘘put the lid on盖上盖子,盖上锅盖,盖好盖子,盖上盖头shut up闭上嘴巴,住口,收声,闭上嘴sit on坐于,坐下来,坐拥,坐在这里

Examples

  • To avoid stifling the creation and growth of new Internet companies, lawmakers should limit new requirements to large companies and refrain from the knee-jerk reaction of revoking it all together.

  • Jung genuinely wanted to help Pauli become more aware of his stifled feelings.

  • Against the Cowboys in Week 7, the line produced four of the team’s six total sacks and stifled a Dallas offense that was already reeling.

  • According to our guests, Google and other major platform companies may be hurting democracy and stifling the economy.

  • In addition to stifling competition by paying off companies like Apple to make its search engine the default on most devices, Google, Weinberg argues, is ultimately contributing to the nation’s alarming divisiveness with its “filter bubble.”

  • One gets the sense that these are the words Sotomayor stifled, or perhaps drafted and circulated, in Fisher.

  • Lukashenko, shaped by the colonial experience, stifled their project in infancy.

  • Stifled by fear, our leaders lose perspective and cease being authentic and vulnerable.

  • And did they bequeath to the military the task of rescuing the democratic impulse stifled by a pharaoh with an Islamist face?

  • Did you feel like when you were acting as the first lady of France, it stifled you artistically?

  • But its voice was soon stifled, and its children were rewarded for their abnegation by punishment, martyrdom and death.

  • It seemed a long time, but the watchers knew that something was going to happen and stifled their impatience.

  • She wrung her slender hands together, as if in pain, then they fell apart, and a stifled cry came from her lips.

  • This emotion of joy coming suddenly in the midst of his fury melted him into a sobbing torrent of tears, and stifled words.

  • From the groans and stifled cries it was too plain they left dead and dying in their course.