Search Result:stifle
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˋstaIfL 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˊstaifl 〕
Overview of noun stifle
The noun stifle has 1 sense
- stifle, knee -- (joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee)
Overview of verb stifle
The verb stifle has 4 senses
- smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress -- (conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn")
- stifle, dampen -- (smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity")
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke -- (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children")
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate -- (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow")