| 单词 | stifled |
| 释义 | stifled (once / 1276 pages) adj Stifled is an adjective for anything that's been squashed or smothered. You might have a stifled ambition to be an astronaut that you never admitted to others. Something stifled is stunted, or prevented from growing. If your mother never let you read books or climb trees, your childhood curiosity might have been stifled. Perhaps your career was stifled because you were constantly daydreaming about being an astronaut, and so failed to do your job well. 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) The 49ers were totally stifled after the break, managing just four first downs and 85 yards. Washington Times(Dec 18, 2016) adj held in check with difficulty a stifled yawn Syn smothered, strangled, suppressed inhibited held back or restrained or prevented |
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