WORD: STIFLE
MEANING:
1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
2. To keep in or hold back; repress: stifled my indignation.
3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Gandhi also alleged that the ruckus in the Lok Sabha on Friday was a planned one to restrict him from questioning the government. "We are being stifled and we are not being allowed to speak in Parliament... They have suppressed our voices," the Congress leader was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
PRONOUNCE:
sti·fle - स्टाइफल
LINK: STIFLE
MEANING:
1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
2. To keep in or hold back; repress: stifled my indignation.
3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Gandhi also alleged that the ruckus in the Lok Sabha on Friday was a planned one to restrict him from questioning the government. "We are being stifled and we are not being allowed to speak in Parliament... They have suppressed our voices," the Congress leader was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
PRONOUNCE:
sti·fle - स्टाइफल
LINK: STIFLE
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