stifle

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Synonyms: stile, stiffle, stille, stife, stiffe

Antonyms: stile, stiffle, stille, stife, stiffe

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Verb

To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- The heat was stifling the children.
To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- The army stifled the rebellion.
To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- The army stifled the rebellion.
To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
To die of suffocation.
- Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- This heat is stifling.

The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
A bone disease of this region.

To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.

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