stifles in English

verb
1
make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate.
those in the streets were stifled by the fumes
2
restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion).
she stifled a giggle
synonyms:suppresssmotherrestrainfight backchoke backgulp backcheckswallowcurbsilence
noun
1
a joint in the legs of horses, dogs, and other animals, equivalent to the knee in humans.
At necropsy all stifle joints were stable to an anterior drawer force with no significant limitations in passive range of motion.

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1. This rigid approach stifles creativity.

2. It stifles innovation and allows policy-making to stagnate.

3. Because pride creates barriers and stifles communication.

4. 23 He sighs and stifles a yawn.

5. Failure to give recognition stifles enthusiasm and initiative.

6. Cowhocks, weak pasterns, straight stifles and splay feet are very bad faults.

7. Jody stifles the urge to call a time-out and berate them.

8. It stifles our ability to have enough money to pay our mortgage

9. 16 Its cavalier treatment of human system factors produces alienation and stifles motivation.

10. Antonyms for Amplifies include quietens, allays, assuages, softens, dulls, lulls, silences, hushes, mutes and stifles

11. We celebrate individuality, but eschew the individualism that stifles creativity inhibits collaboration, and limits intelligence.

12. An atmosphere in which people dread failure or fear that they will be ridiculed for offbeat ideas stifles creativity, Eisner believes.

13. McCannell observed, as did many other students, that Kulak stresses the software developer's need to be creative and insinuates that engineering stifles creativity.

14. The subject generates great cynicism, with critics suggesting investors are in thrall to political correctness and guilty of creating a "box-ticking" culture that stifles entrepreneurship.

15. (Ephesians 5:19, 20) And, of course, check on the volume regularly so that the music neither stifles enjoyable conversation nor disturbs any neighbors. —Matthew 7:12.

16. The Airlessness that stifles so many stage-to-screen adaptations only serves to reinforce this film’s mood of entrapment, barely diminished by the opera selections and the recurring strains of

17. The notion that requiring students to know and master orthodoxy stifles their lovely creativity is the kind of Arrant nonsense I hear from my teenagers all the time and really just because they want to avoid work

18. Software patenting stifles free invention – which up to now has been possible even without much capital – in order to protect a monopoly on the use of generic techniques, the outcome of mercantile absolutism which is extremely dangerous in political terms.