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.

noun. The stifle-joint.

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

noun. 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.

noun. a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench.

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

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

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

noun. A bone disease of this region.

verb. To interrupt or cut off.

verb. To repress, keep in or hold back.

verb. To smother or suffocate.

verb. To feel smothered etc.

verb. To die of suffocation.

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

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

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

verb. conceal or hide

verb. smother or suppress

verb. 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."

articulatio  articulation  block  closeup  conquer  

Eiffel  rifle  trifle  

abate  allay  alleviate  asphyxiate  assuage  

horse  stifle joint  

stifled  stifles  stifling