Stifle

['staɪf(ə)l] or ['staɪfl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee.

(verb.) smother or suppress; 'Stifle your curiosity'.

整理:希欧多尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.

(v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.

(v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.

(v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.

(v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.

雅克校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Smother, choke, suffocate.[2]. Suppress, repress, check, deaden, stop, destroy, extinguish, quench.[3]. Still, hush, silence, muffle, muzzle, gag.

整理:劳拉

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Choke, suffocate, {[sniotfapr]?}, throttle, quench, repress, suppress,extinguish, burke

ANT:Ventilate, discuss, promulgate, propound

阿伊达整理

解釋/意思:

n. the knee-joint on a horse's hind-leg a disease of his knee-pan.

v.t. to stop the breath of by foul air or other means: to suffocate smother: to extinguish: to suppress the sound of: to destroy: to suppress conceal.—v.i. to suffocate.—adj. Stī′fling close oppressive.

整理:韦尔登