stävja — meaning in English

English meaning

• interrupt verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
• stifle verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.

Senses

stävja is used for these senses in English:

• interrupt (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
• stifle (transitive, also, figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
• stifle (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).

interrupt — full definition

1. verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
2. noun Computing: a signal that makes a computer pause its current task to deal with something more urgent.

stifle — full definition

1. verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
2. verb To make breathing difficult, or to smother.
3. noun In horses and other four-legged animals, the joint on the hind leg that corresponds to the human knee.

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