подавить — meaning in English
podavit
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English meaning
- inhibit verb To slow down, restrain, or prevent something from happening freely.
- quell verb To bring a disturbance, rebellion, or strong feeling under control; to suppress it.
- repress verb To use force to stop an uprising, protest, or similar unrest from growing.
- screw noun A metal fastener with a spiral thread, driven in with a twisting motion to hold materials together.
- 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
подавить is used for these senses in English:
- crack down (idiomatic, often with 'on') To take harsh action (against), as when enforcing a law more stringently than before.
- inhibit (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
- quell (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit. [from 10th c.]
- repress (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- repress (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
- stifle (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- strangle (transitive) To stifle or suppress.