Stifle

Synonyms: airless, asphyxiate, bite one's lip, boiling, bottle up, check, choke, choke back, close, constrain, contain, cork up, crush, curb, damp down, deaden, destroy, extinguish, fight back, gag, gulp back, hamper, hinder, hold back, hold in, humid, impede, inhibit, keep back, keep in check, muffle, muggy, mute, oppressive, prevent, put an end/stop to, quash, quench, repress, restrain, silence, smother, soupy, squash, stamp out, sticky, stop, subdue, suffocate, suffocating, suppress, swallow, sweltering, very hot, withhold

Antonyms: excite, stimulate

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Frequency: High Frequency

Content Type: hollywood, S

stifle meaning in Hindi

Stifle Vocab Meme Dictionary – English to Hindi translation

Stifle

(verb) restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion); “she stifled a giggle”
(verb) prevent or constrain (an activity or idea); “high taxes were stifling private enterprise”
(verb) make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate; “those in the streets were stifled by the fumes”
(noun) a joint in the legs of horses, dogs, and other animals, equivalent to the knee in humans.

Stifle (स्टाइफल) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)

दबाना, दम घोंटना

Stifle Origin

late Middle English: perhaps from a frequentative of Old French estouffer ‘smother, stifle’.

Stifle in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)

World Cup 2018 Qualifying: Syrians stifle Korea, Japan back on track.
Sedition Has Become an Easy Tool to Stifle Dissent: Aakar Patel.
Realty Law Has ‘Serious Anomalies’, Can Stifle Growth: DLF.
BoE says won’t stifle innovation as wrestles with fintech.
Is Jai Hind College trying to stifle the voices of Mumbai youths?

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of stifle

stifle = stif + rifle dekhkar chor bhi stifle ho jaayega

Stifle Pronunciation