stifled

/stahy-fuhld/US // ˈstaɪ fəld //

窒息的,窒息,压抑的,窒息而死

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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.

verbprevent, restrain

Synonyms

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.

/stahy-fuhld/US // ˈstaɪ fəld //

窒息的,窒息,压抑的,窒息而死

adj.形容词 adjective

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.

verbprevent, restrain

Synonyms

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.