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verb ˈstʌɪf(ə)lˈstaɪfəl [with object]1Make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate. those in the streets were stifled by the fumes Example sentencesExamples - Last night I went out and two ladies who were sitting at my table were stifling me with their perfume.
- The heat was stifling, and rose in waves off of the sand.
- When the Indians set fire to the main building as well as the sheds, the flames fanned into a sunburst, and their smoke stifled the people of Fort Mims.
- I sat up in bed, suddenly aware my room was stifling hot.
- When Logan got off the plane he was completely stifled by the suffocating heat of Michigan.
- The ground gave way as the plants pulled him down, knocking the wind out of his chest, and stealing the air he could have breathed by stifling him with their multitude.
- I dumped my backpack at my feet and took his coat off because the heat was stifling.
- Ryan growled with exasperation and pulled the covers back over him, even though he was stifling hot.
Synonyms suffocate, choke, asphyxiate smother very hot, sweltering airless, suffocating, oppressive, humid, close, muggy, sticky, soupy informal boiling 2Restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion) Example sentencesExamples - I tried as much as possible, but I couldn't stifle the giggles that escaped after that.
- I stifle a barely-controlled giggle and pray for our stop.
- He stifled a groan and touched her cheek, soft and flushed with sleep.
- It is here that two men stand - the boy recognizes one of them instantly, and has to stifle a surprised cry.
- John stopped trying to stifle the laughter and glared at her.
- I scrunched my brows then stifled my laugh.
- He stifled his immediate reaction, although he couldn't keep from tightening his jaw.
- Ray had to stifle a groan as he made his way to the table.
- Lex thought for a minute, and then stifled a gasp.
- I quickly stifled my laughter as Hyde began to tickle my palm.
- Julia stifles a gasp and puts a hand over her mouth, remaining silent.
- Justin then stifled a nervous laugh and muttered something under his breath.
- Gabrielle winced as she saw her Mom stifle a cry.
- Jake shot a look at them and they abruptly stopped, trying to stifle their laughter.
- He almost choked on his meat but managed to stifle his sudden reaction to her statement with a hastily gulp of water.
- I stop trying to stifle it when I realize that about half the people in the audience are chuckling.
- Victor heard her stifle a cry as he held a small mirror for her.
- Pundits and fans couldn't stifle their laughter.
- He began to speak, but had to stop again to stifle a giggle.
- And, well, I simply couldn't stifle my giggles.
Synonyms suppress, smother, restrain, keep back, hold back, hold in, fight back, choke back, gulp back, withhold, check, keep in check, swallow, muffle, quench, curb, silence, contain, bottle up bite one's lip, cork up - 2.1 Prevent or constrain (an activity or idea)
high taxes were stifling private enterprise Example sentencesExamples - The focus on job creation in the public sector in cities like Bradford is stifling growth in private industry, leading business chiefs have warned.
- The bureaucracy, hidden taxes and social-security payments burdening German employers are so onerous, they stifle new enterprise.
- The wave of mergers and consolidations has certainly not stifled innovation or inhibited the creation of new brands.
- The malfunction of enterprises stifled the growth of innovative designers.
- This will simply stifle business activity and unjustifiably obstruct the free movement of people within the EU.
- His television networks thrive because private competition is stifled.
- But there is a danger that these new regulations will stifle innovation, by forcing everybody to comply with blanket standards of accessibility.
- This migration, he added, could be stifled without regulatory restraint.
- Given the climate and the other equally ridiculous laws being proposed to stifle innovation, my hopes aren't very high.
- The system is now clearly stifling innovation and competition and needs to be radically changed.
- Today's technology also can interfere with forming solid alliances, which can stifle excellent ideas.
- Taxes stifle enterprise only if they increase with enterprise.
- But this traps them into replacing one orthodoxy with another, stifling rather than expanding debate.
- As a result you are going to be stifling the activity of the most grassroots, casual type of political action, rather than that of the big press corporation.
- We reject them because they will put still more power to politicians and bureaucrats, because they stifle economic development rather than fostering it.
- Missive after missive describes the burden of the existing system, and how 20 more years of control will stifle creative work.
- The president, elected last year in a controversial ballot, has stifled dissent.
- And by distributing a new pattern of economic activity over a broad rural area, even while stifling growth, prisons create sprawl.
- The public service in Scotland is stifling private enterprise.
- A county judge dismissed that case last April under a California law aimed at discouraging lawsuits that stifle constitutionally-protected activities.
Synonyms constrain, hinder, hamper, impede, hold back, curb, check, restrain, prevent, inhibit put an end/stop to, stop, quash, squash, stamp out, destroy, crush, extinguish, deaden, damp down, subdue, suppress, repress silence, muffle, mute, gag
Derivatives noun ˈstʌɪflə These stiflers of academic success stem from personal experiences related to learning tasks. Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps these stiflers of free press have had some profound conversion or just found it expedient for purposes of re-election.
Origin Late Middle English: perhaps from a frequentative of Old French estouffer 'smother, stifle'. stew from Middle English: When stew entered the language it referred to a cauldron or large cooking pot, not to what was being cooked in it. The source was Old French estuve, probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke or steam’, which is also where the fevers typhus (late 18th century) and typhoid (early 19th century) come from, because they create the kind of stupor that is associated with smoke inhalation. The verb ‘to stew’ originally referred to bathing in a hot bath or steam bath. It was not long before the idea of heating people in a bath had changed to heating food in an oven, specifically cooking a dish of meat and vegetables by simmering it slowly in a closed vessel. Stifle (Late Middle English) probably comes from the same Old French root, and stove (Middle English), originally a ‘sweating room’ in a steam bath, may be related. See also seethe
stifle2(also stifle joint) noun ˈstʌɪf(ə)lˈstaɪfəl A joint in the legs of horses, dogs, and other animals, equivalent to the knee in humans. Example sentencesExamples - It primarily occurs in the shoulder or elbow joints, but it can affect the hocks or stifles, too.
- At necropsy all stifle joints were stable to an anterior drawer force with no significant limitations in passive range of motion.
- Usually small spots on the hip or back indicate white factor; some breeders believe that any white extended up the hind leg into the stifle suggests that white factor is present.
- Alas, Tamarillo went down late last night with a knock to the stifle joint incurred over the cross-county and was withdrawn.
- ‘He hurt a stifle behind in the Belmont,’ the trainer told us.
Origin Middle English: of unknown origin. verbˈstaɪfəlˈstīfəl [with object]1Make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate. those in the streets were stifled by the fumes Example sentencesExamples - I dumped my backpack at my feet and took his coat off because the heat was stifling.
- Last night I went out and two ladies who were sitting at my table were stifling me with their perfume.
- Ryan growled with exasperation and pulled the covers back over him, even though he was stifling hot.
- When Logan got off the plane he was completely stifled by the suffocating heat of Michigan.
- I sat up in bed, suddenly aware my room was stifling hot.
- The ground gave way as the plants pulled him down, knocking the wind out of his chest, and stealing the air he could have breathed by stifling him with their multitude.
- When the Indians set fire to the main building as well as the sheds, the flames fanned into a sunburst, and their smoke stifled the people of Fort Mims.
- The heat was stifling, and rose in waves off of the sand.
Synonyms very hot, sweltering suffocate, choke, asphyxiate 2Restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion) she stifled a desire to turn and flee she gave a stifled cry of disappointment Example sentencesExamples - He began to speak, but had to stop again to stifle a giggle.
- Lex thought for a minute, and then stifled a gasp.
- He stifled his immediate reaction, although he couldn't keep from tightening his jaw.
- I quickly stifled my laughter as Hyde began to tickle my palm.
- Victor heard her stifle a cry as he held a small mirror for her.
- And, well, I simply couldn't stifle my giggles.
- Jake shot a look at them and they abruptly stopped, trying to stifle their laughter.
- I scrunched my brows then stifled my laugh.
- He almost choked on his meat but managed to stifle his sudden reaction to her statement with a hastily gulp of water.
- I tried as much as possible, but I couldn't stifle the giggles that escaped after that.
- Gabrielle winced as she saw her Mom stifle a cry.
- I stop trying to stifle it when I realize that about half the people in the audience are chuckling.
- He stifled a groan and touched her cheek, soft and flushed with sleep.
- I stifle a barely-controlled giggle and pray for our stop.
- John stopped trying to stifle the laughter and glared at her.
- Ray had to stifle a groan as he made his way to the table.
- Pundits and fans couldn't stifle their laughter.
- Julia stifles a gasp and puts a hand over her mouth, remaining silent.
- Justin then stifled a nervous laugh and muttered something under his breath.
- It is here that two men stand - the boy recognizes one of them instantly, and has to stifle a surprised cry.
Synonyms suppress, smother, restrain, keep back, hold back, hold in, fight back, choke back, gulp back, withhold, check, keep in check, swallow, muffle, quench, curb, silence, contain, bottle up - 2.1 Prevent or constrain (an activity or idea)
high taxes were stifling private enterprise Example sentencesExamples - The malfunction of enterprises stifled the growth of innovative designers.
- This migration, he added, could be stifled without regulatory restraint.
- As a result you are going to be stifling the activity of the most grassroots, casual type of political action, rather than that of the big press corporation.
- And by distributing a new pattern of economic activity over a broad rural area, even while stifling growth, prisons create sprawl.
- A county judge dismissed that case last April under a California law aimed at discouraging lawsuits that stifle constitutionally-protected activities.
- But this traps them into replacing one orthodoxy with another, stifling rather than expanding debate.
- We reject them because they will put still more power to politicians and bureaucrats, because they stifle economic development rather than fostering it.
- The bureaucracy, hidden taxes and social-security payments burdening German employers are so onerous, they stifle new enterprise.
- Missive after missive describes the burden of the existing system, and how 20 more years of control will stifle creative work.
- The president, elected last year in a controversial ballot, has stifled dissent.
- The public service in Scotland is stifling private enterprise.
- The wave of mergers and consolidations has certainly not stifled innovation or inhibited the creation of new brands.
- The system is now clearly stifling innovation and competition and needs to be radically changed.
- But there is a danger that these new regulations will stifle innovation, by forcing everybody to comply with blanket standards of accessibility.
- His television networks thrive because private competition is stifled.
- Taxes stifle enterprise only if they increase with enterprise.
- Given the climate and the other equally ridiculous laws being proposed to stifle innovation, my hopes aren't very high.
- Today's technology also can interfere with forming solid alliances, which can stifle excellent ideas.
- The focus on job creation in the public sector in cities like Bradford is stifling growth in private industry, leading business chiefs have warned.
- This will simply stifle business activity and unjustifiably obstruct the free movement of people within the EU.
Synonyms constrain, hinder, hamper, impede, hold back, curb, check, restrain, prevent, inhibit
Origin Late Middle English: perhaps from a frequentative of Old French estouffer ‘smother, stifle’. stifle2(also stifle joint) nounˈstīfəlˈstaɪfəl A joint in the legs of horses, dogs, and other animals, equivalent to the knee in humans. Example sentencesExamples - Usually small spots on the hip or back indicate white factor; some breeders believe that any white extended up the hind leg into the stifle suggests that white factor is present.
- ‘He hurt a stifle behind in the Belmont,’ the trainer told us.
- It primarily occurs in the shoulder or elbow joints, but it can affect the hocks or stifles, too.
- At necropsy all stifle joints were stable to an anterior drawer force with no significant limitations in passive range of motion.
- Alas, Tamarillo went down late last night with a knock to the stifle joint incurred over the cross-county and was withdrawn.
Origin Middle English: of unknown origin. |