potlačit — meaning in English
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English meaning
- inhibit verb To slow down, restrain, or prevent something from happening freely.
- quash verb To officially cancel or reject a legal decision, charge, or order.
- quell verb To bring a disturbance, rebellion, or strong feeling under control; to suppress it.
- squash noun A racquet sport played in a walled court with a small rubber ball.
- stifle verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
- strangle verb To kill or injure someone by squeezing their throat and cutting off their air.
- suppress verb To forcibly put an end to something, such as a rebellion or protest.
Senses
potlačit is used for these senses in English:
- inhibit (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
- quash To defeat decisively, to suppress.
- quell (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. [from 14th c.]
- squash (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
- stifle (transitive, also, figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- stifle (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- stifle (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- strangle (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
quash — full definition
- verb To officially cancel or reject a legal decision, charge, or order.
- verb To forcefully put an end to something, such as a rebellion or rumor.