stifle
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stifle (plural stifles)
- A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
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bone disease of this region
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to stifle (third-person singular simple present stifles, present participle stifling, simple past and past participle stifled)
- (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.
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- See also Wikisaurus:die
[edit] Translations
to interrupt or cut off
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to repress, keep in or hold back
to smother or suffocate
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