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Verb: stifle  stI-ful
  1. Suppress in order to conceal or hide
    "stifle a yawn";
    - smother, strangle, muffle, repress
     
  2. Suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
    "Stifle your curiosity";
    - dampen
     
  3. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
    "The foul air was slowly stifling the children";
    - suffocate, asphyxiate, choke
     
  4. Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
    "The miners would have stifled without proper ventilation";
    - suffocate, asphyxiate
     
  5. [informal] Be uncomfortably hot
    "The workers stifled in the unventilated room";
    - swelter
Noun: stifle  stI-ful
  1. Joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
    "The horse injured its stifle while jumping the fence";
    - knee

Derived forms: stifled, stifles, stifling

Type of: ache, articulatio, articulation, block, bottle up, buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], cash in [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], close up, conk [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], croak [informal], decease [archaic], die, drop dead [informal], exit, expire, flatline [informal], give up the ghost [informal], go, hurt, impede, inhibit, jam, joint, kick the bucket [informal], obstruct, obturate, occlude, pass, pass away, pass on, perish, pop off [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], snuff it [informal], suffer, suppress

Part of: hind leg

Encyclopedia: Stifle