stifle lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
• be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen "The child suffocated under the pillow"
• smother or suppress "Stifle your curiosity"
• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
• conceal or hide "smother a yawn" "muffle one's anger" "strangle a yawn"
• struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
• put out, as of fires, flames, or lights "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained" "quench the flames" "snuff out the candles"
• joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
• In horses, cattle, and other quadrupeds, the joint between the femur and the tibia, corresponding to the human knee.