bastırmak — meaning in English
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English meaning
- insist verb To state something firmly and repeatedly, refusing to accept disagreement.
- stifle verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
- suppress verb To forcibly put an end to something, such as a rebellion or protest.
- swamp noun An area of wet, spongy, low-lying land, often with trees, that supports rich but sometimes difficult-to-access wildlife.
Senses
bastırmak is used for these senses in English:
- insist (with (that + indicative), or, intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.
- 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.
- suppress To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
- suppress To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
- suppress (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
- suppress To stop a flow or stream.
- suppress (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.
- swamp (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
stifle — full definition
- verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
- verb To make breathing difficult, or to smother.
- noun In horses and other four-legged animals, the joint on the hind leg that corresponds to the human knee.