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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

  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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