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Synonyms for stifle
ˈstaɪ fəlsti·fle
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stifle, kneeverb
joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
Synonyms:
articulatio genus, knee, knee joint, human knee, genusmother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repressverb
conceal or hide
"smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
Synonyms:
keep down, cramp, muffle, surround, quash, halter, suppress, asphyxiate, subjugate, gag, mute, strangulate, throttle, reduce, hamper, repress, put out, damp, suffocate, dull, smother, choke, dampen, tone down, strangle, subduestifle, dampenverb
smother or suppress
"Stifle your curiosity"
Synonyms:
asphyxiate, muffle, mute, moisten, dull, weaken, repress, break, soften, tone down, suffocate, wash, smother, choke, deaden, damp, dampen, stranglesuffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, chokeverb
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
Synonyms:
drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, dampen, go, pass, choke off, die, smother, suffocate, exit, congest, scrag, mufflesuffocate, stifle, asphyxiateverb
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
"The child suffocated under the pillow"
Synonyms:
suffocate, asphyxiate, gag, muffle, strangle, repress, smother, choke, dampen
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #123 | go | |
| #1457 | cool | |
| #1493 | pass | |
| #1618 | break | |
| #1763 | die | |
| #2036 | reduce | |
| #3227 | exit | |
| #5204 | wash | |
| #7034 | knee | |
| #8297 | surround | |
| #9305 | burke | |
| #9718 | foul | |
| #12429 | gag | |
| #12853 | expire | |
| #13293 | dull | |
| #13617 | nip | |
| #15923 | mute | |
| #16683 | suppress | |
| #16912 | throttle | |
| #18220 | damp | |
| #21204 | choke | |
| #21226 | halter | |
| #22854 | hinder | |
| #23611 | hamper | |
| #25411 | weaken | |
| #27090 | fret | |
| #27773 | smother | |
| #27826 | perish | |
| #30094 | restrain | |
| #30189 | clog | |
| #30385 | soften | |
| #40453 | quench | |
| #43067 | stifle | |
| #44779 | cramp | |
| #45925 | extinguish | |
| #51445 | dampen | |
| #53900 | quell | |
| #54755 | subdue | |
| #56041 | repress | |
| #60869 | strangle | |
| #66240 | quash | |
| #66795 | oppress | |
| #73790 | croak | |
| #82036 | suffocate | |
| #87201 | moisten | |
| #92888 | decease | |
| #115405 | muffle | |
| #116275 | subjugate | |
| #158158 | deaden | |
| #166458 | conk | |
| #201265 | genu | |
| #299464 | congest |
How to use stifle in a sentence?
Which has greater innovation: the United States Post Office, or Facebook and Twitter? Which has greater innovation: Taxi commissions in local cities, or Lyft and Uber? Every time you put unelected bureaucrats in charge of the market, they stifle innovation.
This latest revelation proves the CDC is rolling full steam ahead with their censorship campaign against citizens who speak up, this new scheme to use taxpayer money – intended to further scientific inquiry – to instead stifle researchers and anyone who dares dissent from the Biden administration's ever-changing COVID narrative is unsurprising and unacceptable.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
The BOJ probably won't want to do anything that would stifle private-sector innovation. The best way could be to issue a hybrid-type digital currency that is operated and issued by private firms, with the central bank's involvement.
At every aviation conference, everyone agrees market access controls and ownership restrictions are a bad idea and should be done away with and' let's go to global open skies', but it doesn't happen, and I can only think that is because... governments stifle it. That for all their high intentions, governments quite like it the way it is or at least can't think of a system they'd prefer to have.
Translations for stifle
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- خنقArabic
- dusit, udusit, udusit se, potlačitCzech
- unterdrücken, ersticken, unterbrechen, erdrückenGerman
- sofocar, reprimirSpanish
- tukahduttaa, vaimentaa, katkaista, tukehduttaa, tukahtua, keskeyttää, takapolvi, polvi, tukehtuaFinnish
- interrompre, réprimer, couperFrench
- elfojt, megfulladHungarian
- soffocare, trattenere, affogare, interrompere, celare, boccheggiare, tagliare, reprimere, ricoprire, asfissiare, grassellaItalian
- 噛み殺す, 抑える, 消す, 静める, 遮る, 窒息, 抑圧, もみ消すJapanese
- បង្អាក់, រារាំងKhmer
- whakakōmau, nati, nanatiMāori
- onderdrukken, afbreken, stikken, onderbrekenDutch
- душить, прервать, задыхаться, подавить, задохнуться, прерывать, подавлять, задушитьRussian
- tutmak, bastırmak, boğulmakTurkish
- chết ngộpVietnamese
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