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To stifle something means to stop it before it can fully happen or continue, especially a natural reaction or a feeling - you stifle a yawn, a laugh, or tears by holding them back, or you stifle creativity, criticism, or free speech by not letting it develop. It can also describe air that is stifling - so hot and still that it's hard to breathe.
壓抑、抑制（笑、打呵欠、批評等）；（空氣）悶熱
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stifleverb詞源 1/ˈstaɪfl̩/
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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.
- And while her Hand the ſtreaming Blood oppos'd; / Join'd Face to Face, his Lips with hers ſhe clos'd. / Stifled with Kiſſes, a ſweet Death he dies; / She fills the Fields with undiſtinguiſh'd Cries: [...]
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To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- The heat was stifling the children.
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To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
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To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
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To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- The army stifled the rebellion.
- I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
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To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- Atticus tried to stifle a smile but didn’t make it.
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To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
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To die of suffocation.
- Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
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To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- This heat is stifling.
- Nobody has shaved or changed clothes for a week, the heat stifles and the flies are everywhere. There is little water but we do not expect to be here long. This is not much of a letter, Jess. The mailbag goes down our trench once a day. I must finish because it stops for no one.
stiflenoun詞源 1/ˈstaɪfl̩/
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rareAn act or state of being stifled.
stiflenoun詞源 2/ˈstaɪfl̩/
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyThe joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
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biologymedicinenatural-sciencesA bone disease of this region.
stifleverb詞源 2/ˈstaɪfl̩/
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To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。