stifle

Significado (inglés)

1. To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
2. To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
3. To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
4. To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
5. To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
6. To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
7. To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
8. To die of suffocation.
9. To smother; to make breathing difficult.

suffocate

choke

force back

choke back

choke down

Frecuencia

Guionizado como

stif‧le

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈstaɪfl̩/

The verb is derived from Late Middle English stuflen (“to have difficulty breathing due to heat, stifle; to suffocate by drowning, drown”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain, perhaps from stuffen (“to kill by suffocation; to stifle from heat; to extinguish, suppress (body heat, breath, humour, etc.); to deprive a plant of the conditions necessary for growth, choke”) + -el- (derivational infix in verbs, often denoting diminutive, intensive, or repetitive actions or events). Stuffen is derived from Old French estofer, estouffer (“to choke, strangle, suffocate; (figuratively) to inhibit, prevent”) [and other forms] (modern French étouffer), a variant of estoper, estuper (“to block, plug, stop up; to stiffen, thicken”) (modern French étouper (“to caulk”)), influenced by estofer (“to pad, stuff; to upholster”) (modern French étoffer). Estoper is derived from Vulgar Latin *stuppāre, from Latin stuppa (“coarse flax, tow”) (as a stuffing material; from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē) (compare στυππεῖον (stuppeîon)); probably from Pre-Greek) + -āre. According to the Oxford English Dictionary a derivation from Old Norse stífla (“to dam; to choke, stop up”) “appears untenable on the ground both of form and sense”. The noun is derived from the verb.