stifle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.

   “I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.”

2. fiil To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.

   “The heat was stifling the children.”

3. fiil To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
4. fiil To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
5. fiil To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).

   “The army stifled the rebellion.”

6. fiil To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.

   “Atticus tried to stifle a smile but didn’t make it.”

7. fiil To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
8. fiil To die of suffocation.

   “Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.”

9. fiil To smother; to make breathing difficult.

   “This heat is stifling.”

10. isim An act or state of being stifled.
11. isim The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
12. isim A bone disease of this region.
13. fiil To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.