stifle
— Verb
– English
～ suppress in order to conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a laugh"; "repress a cry of fear"
stifle
— Verb
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～ be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
stifled
— Adjective
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～ held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
stifler
— Noun
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～ a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop"
stifling
— Noun
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～ forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
stifling
— Adjective
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～ characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
stigma
— Noun
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～ a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
stigma
— Noun
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～ an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
stigma
— Noun
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～ a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis
stigma
— Noun
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～ the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
stigmata
— Noun
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～ marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
stigmatic
— Noun
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～ a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
stigmatic
— Adjective
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～ pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images)
stigmatic
— Adjective
– English
～ pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata
stigmatisation
— Noun
– English
～ the act of stigmatizing
stigmatise
— Verb
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～ mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress"
stigmatise
— Verb
– English
～ to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
stigmatism
— Noun
– English
～ the condition of having or being marked by stigmata