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v. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).

v. To keep in or hold back; repress: stifled my indignation.

v. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.

verb-intransitive. To feel smothered or suffocated by or as if by close confinement in a stuffy room.

verb-intransitive. To die of suffocation.

n. The joint of the hind leg analogous to the human knee in certain quadrupeds, such as the horse.

n. A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.

n. A bone disease of this region.

v. To interrupt or cut off.

v. To repress, keep in or hold back.

v. To smother or suffocate.

v. To feel smothered etc.

v. To die of suffocation.

v. To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

n. The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under horse.

v. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means.

v. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench.

v. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge.

verb-intransitive. To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.

To choke up; dam up; close.

To kill by impeding respiration, as by covering the mouth and nose, by introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs, or by other means; suffocate or greatly oppress by foul air or otherwise; smother.

To stop the passage of; arrest the free action of; extinguish; deaden; quench: as, to stifle flame; to stifle sound.

To suppress; keep from active manifestation; keep from public notice; conceal; repress; destroy: as, to stifle inquiry; to stifle a report; to stifle passion; to stifle convictions.

Synonyms Suffocate, Strangle, etc. See smother.

To husn, muffle, muzzle, gag.

To suffocate; perish by asphyxia.

n. The stifle-joint.

n. Disease or other affection of the stifle-bone or stifle-joint, as dislocation or fracture of the patella.

v. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

n. joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

v. conceal or hide

v. smother or suppress

v. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen

"This boar's savage charge at the camel was within a few yards of all of us, for every one was trying to entice him to come forth; after his headlong rush out of the bush he reared so upright in his attempt to reach his clumsy disturber, which was quite frantic from deadly fear, that he succeeded in ripping it in what in a horse would be termed the stifle joint."

stifled    stifles    stifling   

impede    occlude    block    jam    obturate    obstruct    closeup    articulatio    joint    articulation   

stifle joint    horse   

stop    extinguish    deaden    quench    smother    die   

Eiffel    rifle    trifle