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stifle
has definitions from the fields of anatomy,biology
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[ verb ] smother or suppress
Synonyms Examples "Stifle your curiosity" Used in print (Schuyler Cammann, "The Magic Square of Three in...)Scholars made numbered sets of as_many things as possible in Nature , or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things , in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical , and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries . |
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[ verb ] (biology) kill by constricting the throat and preventing from breathing
Synonyms Examples "Othello suffocated Desdemona with a pillow" |
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[ verb ] impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
Synonyms Examples "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" Related terms |
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