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Noun stifle has 1 sense
- stifle, knee - joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
--1 is a kind of joint, articulation, articulatio
--1 is a part of hind leg
Verb stifle has 4 senses
- smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress - conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
--1 is one way to suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
Sample sentences:
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- stifle, dampen - smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity"
--2 is one way to suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
Antonyms: stimulate, excite
Sample sentences:
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- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
--3 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
Sample sentences:
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- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
--4 is one way to die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
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