English-Italian translations for stifle

• soffocare
  Non possiamo permetterci di soffocare le PMI europee. We cannot afford to stifle vital European SMEs.
  La discussione non deve soffocare il pluralismo, al contrario. The debate must not stifle pluralism, quite the contrary.
  I brevetti devono proteggere l’innovazione, non soffocare la concorrenza. Patents should protect innovation, rather than stifle competition.
• boccheggiare
• affogare
• asfissiare
• celare
• grassella
• interrompere
• reprimere
  Nel XXI secolo, dobbiamo incoraggiare, e non reprimere, la concorrenza generata dai rivenditori on-line. In the 21st century, we must encourage, not stifle, competition from online retailers.
• ricoprire
• tagliare
• trattenere

Definition of stifle

• A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses
• To interrupt or cut off
• To smother or suffocate
• To feel smothered etc
• To die of suffocation
• To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production

Examples

• The army stifled the rebellion
• The heat was stifling the children
• The heat felt stifling
• Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterdays fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom

Related words

• stifling
• stifled
• stifling heat
• smother stifle