0 to prevent, or be prevented, from breathing (easily) eg because of bad air, an obstruction over the mouth and nose etc; to suffocate -- tercekik
1 to extinguish or put out (flames). -- memadamkan api
Could it be that identification with policy concerns stifles creativity, while social science may flourish when incorporated in a slightly subversive lifestyle ?
The debate over whether the public sector promoted or stifled artistic endeavors remains volatile even today.
In the world of solid objects envisaged by material-culture theorists, however, the flux of materials is stifled and stilled.
Secondly, pupils' preoccupation with producing a final compositional product shortened, and in some senses stifled, the compositional process that they were engaged in.
He's stifled, dirty and itchy, and unsteady at the ankles.
More importantly in this context, stifling technocratic and entrepreneurial talent, as well as making unproductive 'white-elephant' investments, will harm the economy.
While the idea of socrealizm was still valid it had been clumsily implemented and had stifled individual 'free development' necessary to underpin objective truth.
The past had become a dead weight that held society back; it shackled people's minds and stifled their sense of patriotism.
