Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of stifle is as below...

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle..

Smother :: Smother (v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.

Stifled :: Stifle (n.) 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..

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion..

Suffossion :: Suffocative (a.) Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Querken :: Querken (v. t.) To stifle or choke.

Deaf :: Deaf (a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

Suffocate :: Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

Stifler :: Stifled (a.) Stifling.

Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle..

Stigmas :: Stifler (n.) See Camouflet.

Stive :: Stive (v. i.) To be stifled or suffocated.

Scomfish :: Scomfish (v. t. & i.) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.

Suffocating :: Suffocate (v. i.) To become choked, stifled, or smothered..

Stifled :: Stifle (v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration..

Extinguish :: Extinguish (v. t.) To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right..

Stifling :: Stifled (imp. & p. p.) of Stifl.

Smudge :: Smudge (v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) 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..

Random Fonts

Most Popular