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  2. to prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing: She stifled a cough / yawn / scream / sneeze. I don't know how I managed to stifle my anger. We should be encouraging new ideas, not stifling them. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Preventing and impeding. anti-drug.

  3. The meaning of STIFLE is to withhold from circulation or expression. How to use stifle in a sentence.

  4. to smother or suppress. stifle a cough. 2. to feel or cause to feel discomfort and difficulty in breathing. 3. to prevent or be prevented from breathing so as to cause death. 4.(transitive) to crush or stamp out. Collins English Dictionary.

  5. Stifle definition: to quell, crush, or end by force. See examples of STIFLE used in a sentence.

  6. to prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing: She stifled a cough / yawn / scream / sneeze. I don't know how I managed to stifle my anger. We should be encouraging new ideas, not stifling them. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  7. The verb stifle means “to choke, suffocate, drown.”. It can describe a claustrophobic feeling, like getting smothered by kisses from your great aunt. At its most extreme, stifle means to kill by cutting off respiration.

  8. 1. If someone stifles something you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing. [disapproval] [...] 2. If you stifle a yawn or laugh, you prevent yourself from yawning or laughing. [...] 3. If you stifle your natural feelings or behaviour, you prevent yourself from having those feelings or behaving in that way. [...] More.

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