📖 Определения и значения для слова stifle
📒 to prevent something from happening; to prevent a feeling from being expressed
- She managed to stifle a yawn.
- They hope the new rules will not stifle creativity.
- The government failed to stifle the unrest.
📒 to feel unable to breathe, or to make somebody unable to breathe, because it is too hot and/or there is no fresh air
- I felt I was stifling in the airless room.
- stifle somebody Most of the victims were stifled by the fumes.