verb🔗ShareTo interrupt or cut off."The heavy workload stifled her creativity. "communicationactionlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo repress, keep in or hold back."The army stifled the rebellion."mindemotionactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo smother or suffocate."The heat was stifling the children."physiologybodysensationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo feel smothered etc."The heat felt stifling."sensationmindbodyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo die of suffocation."The small bird, trapped in the closed box, eventually stifled from lack of air. "physiologybodymedicineChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production."The factory worker stifled the silkworm cocoons with steam to prepare them for unwinding into silk thread. "agricultureinsectprocessmaterialindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareThat has been interrupted, suppressed etc"The stifled attempt at reform led to further resentment."actionmindsensationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
