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impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity"

conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity"

conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

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.

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; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.

To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.

To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.

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

In horses, cattle, and other quadrupeds, the joint between the femur and the tibia, corresponding to the human knee.

To suffocate or stop the breath of; smother; extinguish or put out; as, to stifle a fire.

The first joint above a horse's hock: corresponding to the knee in man.

To stop the breath of by foul air or other means: to suffocate: to extinguish: to suppress the sound of: to destroy.

To suffocate: to perish by suffocation or strangulation. Shak.

To suffocate; suppress; destroy.

To kill by stopping respiration; extinguish, as a flame; suppress.

To die from suffocation.

The joint next the body, in the hind leg of a horse.