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 Translation for 'to stifle sth' from English to Bulgarian
to stifle sth. [suppress] сдържам нщ. [плач, смях и пр.] [несв.]
Partial Matches
to attribute sth. to sb./sth.приписвам нщ. на нкг./нщ.
to aim sth. at sb./sth. насочвам нщ. към нкг./нщ. [несв.]
to point sth. at sb./sth.насочвам нщ. към нкг./нщ.
unverified to mingle sth. with sth.смесвам [несв.]нщ. с нщ.
to rest sth. on sth.слагам нщ. върху нщ. [несв.]
something {pron} <sth.>нещо <нщ.>
to shut sth.затварям нщ.
to keep sth.запазвам нщ. [несв.]
to amend sth.поправям нщ.
unverified to spray sth.пръскам нщ. [несв.]
to skip sth. пропускам нщ. [несв.] [прескачам]
to ruin sth.съсипвам нщ. [несв.]
to own sth.притежавам нщ.
to accentuate sth. подчертавам нщ. [несв.] [прен.] [правя да изпъкне]
unverified to modify sth.променям нщ. [частично]
to evade sth.избягвам от нщ. [несв.]
to mandate sth.нареждам нщ. [разпореждам]
to snatch sth.грабвам нщ. [несв.]
to disassemble sth.разглобявам нщ.
unverified to unleash sth.давам воля на нщ.
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Usage Examples English
  • This invasive species threaten to stifle the fauna and flora, as it multiplies at lightning speed.
  • In countries with authoritarian systems of government, the government may use such measures to stifle dissent.
  • The Big Finish Productions audio play "Spare Parts" (set on Mondas in the early days of Cyber-conversion) suggests that the Cybermen deliberately remove their emotions as part of the conversion process to stifle the physical and emotional trauma of becoming a Cyberman.
  • Other sources suggest that it was the usual practice in the Unit for surgeons to stuff a rag (or medical gauze) into the mouth of prisoners before commencing vivisection in order to stifle any screaming.
  • The term Galenism has subsequently taken on both a positive and pejorative meaning as one that transformed medicine in late antiquity yet so dominated subsequent thinking as to stifle further progress.

  • This was done to stifle the opposition of the Canal Company to the creation of the Railway Company.
  • To compensate for lacking export revenues, and also in order to stifle the Swedish advances in the Thirty Years' War, Christian enacted a number of increases in the Sound Dues throughout the 1630s.
  • The closed court allowed the military to still not disclose the emptiness of their evidence to the public and to stifle debate.
  • Powerful parties can also act in an oligocratic way to form an alliance to stifle the growth of emerging parties.
  • Shortly after that time, the government sought to stifle opposition by issuing a decree forbidding the propagation of rumors and by banning a number of independent newspapers and detaining their journalists.

  • He may have done this to stifle any protest they made, if they guessed their captain's plans.
  • Like many scientists of his generation, he felt that security from atomic bombs would come only from a transnational organization such as the newly formed United Nations, which could institute a program to stifle a nuclear arms race.
  • 1 billion for colluding with two wholesalers to stifle competition and keep prices high by handicapping independent resellers.
  • O'Neill stated that he made fun of Disney in large part because they were the worst at using lawsuits to stifle parodies, spoofs, and other fair use commentaries.
  • Opposition MP Matthew Batsiua has said that the Facebook ban is actually intended to stifle criticism of the government.

  • However, Meat Loaf asserts that Rizzuto claimed ignorance only to stifle criticism and was fully aware of the context of what he was recording.
  • Such widespread surveillance is usually justified as being necessary for national security, such as to prevent crime or acts of terrorism, but may also be used to stifle criticism of and opposition to the government.
  • Series creator Norman Lear said on "All Things Considered" that the reason why Archie would always tell Edith to stifle herself was because Lear's father told his mother to "stifle".
  • Another reviewer in "Variety" noted of a 1995 production starring Tony Randall as Sir Peter Teazle that Sheridan's play was "such a superbly crafted laugh machine, and so timeless in delivering delectable comeuppance to a viper's nest of idle-rich gossipmongers, that you'd practically have to club it to death to stifle its amazing pleasures" – before claiming that this is "precisely" what the production being reviewed had done.
  • Moore remained in the game for the Angels; he was able to stifle a tenth inning Red Sox rally by getting Jim Rice to ground into a double play.

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