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# stifle

«stifle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to hold it back so that nobody hears it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (stifle, stifles, stifled, stifling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stifle a sound is to hold it back so that nobody hears it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifle/#m1)

2) To stifle a fire or a person is to smother it or stop its breath or flame. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a hand is clapped over a mouth to stifle a groan, or a robber is smothered

### examples

- She stifled a yawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifle/#x1)
- He stifled his giggle in his sleeve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifle/#x2)
- The thick blanket stifled the flames. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stifle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stifle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.