| Definitions | | stifle |
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noun
- A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
Translations: verb (stifl, ing)
- (transitive) To interrupt or cut off
- (transitive) To repress, keep in or hold back
- The army stifled the rebellion.
- (transitive) To smother or suffocate
- The heat was stifling.
- (intransitive) To feel smothered etc
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation
- Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday's fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
Translations: - German: ersticken
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