| stifled | Simple past and past participle of stifle | en |
| stifled | Of or pertaining to something stifled or suppressed | en |
| stifled | Stifling | en |
| stifled | held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" | en |
| stifle | be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" | en |
| stifle | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" | en |
| stifle | smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity" | en |
| stifle | joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity | en |
| stifle | A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses | en |
| stifle | To die of suffocation | en |
| stifle | To smother or suffocate | en |
| stifle | To repress, keep in or hold back | en |
| stifle | To interrupt or cut off | en |
| stifle | To feel smothered etc | en |
| stifle | joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee | en |
| stifle | conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" | en |
| stifle | If you stifle your natural feelings or behaviour, you prevent yourself from having those feelings or behaving in that way. It is best to stifle curiosity and leave birds' nests alone = suppress | en |
| stifle | To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame | en |
| stifle | To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion | en |
| stifle | To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration | en |
| stifle | 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 | en |
| stifle | under Horse | en |
| stifle | See Illust | en |
| stifle | disapproval If someone stifles something you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing. Critics have accused the US of trying to stifle debate. = repress | en |
| stifle | If you stifle a yawn or laugh, you prevent yourself from yawning or laughing. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn = suppress | en |
| stifle | hold back, restrain; crush, quell; smother, suffocate, asphyxiate; be suffocated fiil | en |
| stifle | 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 | en |