Crossword clues for stifle
stifle
- Sit on
- Fight back
- Archie Bunker order
- Archie's exhortation to Edith
- Archie's admonition to Edith
- Hold in, as a sneeze
- Archie's command to Edith
- Archie Bunker command
- Word that's an anagram of itself?
- Verb that's an anagram of itself
- Try not to laugh after your friend farts at a funeral, say
- Restrain, as a laugh
- Repress — itself (anag)
- Repress — asphyxiate
- Hold back, as a cough
- Bunker's "Quiet!"
- Asphyxiate — itself (anag)
- Archie Bunker's command
- "Quiet!" to Archie Bunker
- Curb
- Squelch
- Choke
- Suppress, as a yawn
- Smother — suppress
- Archie Bunker's plea to Edith
- Hold back, as a yawn
- Joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped
- Corresponds to the human knee
- Inhibit, as a yawn
- Horse's "knee"
- Stop, as a yawn
- Smother - suppress
- Lookalike's campanologist no longer with us
- Repress - itself
- Dessert not right after second scotch
- Put the kibosh on
- Hold back, as a laugh
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stifle \Sti"fle\, n. [From Stiff.] (Far.) 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 bone, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.
Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. i. To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
You shall stifle in your own report.
--Shak.
Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stifled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stifling.] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. st[=i]fla to dam up.]
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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.
Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
--Dryden.I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
--Swift. -
To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit.
--Sir I. Newton. -
To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
--Waterland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to choke, suffocate, drown," of uncertain origin, possibly an alteration of Old French estouffer "to stifle, smother" (Modern French étouffer), itself of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Germanic source (compare Old High German stopfon "to plug up, stuff"). Metaphoric sense is from 1570s. Related: Stifled; stifling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses. 2 (context veterinary medicine English) A bone disease of this region. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To interrupt or cut off. 2 (context transitive English) To repress, keep in or hold back.
WordNet
n. joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee [syn: knee]
v. conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" [syn: smother, strangle, muffle, repress]
smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity" [syn: dampen] [ant: stimulate]
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" [syn: suffocate, asphyxiate, choke]
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" [syn: suffocate, asphyxiate]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "stifle".
Wiping eyes and stifling laughs, the three men turned to appraise him.
Being inside an Architect temple, he thought, was as stifling as being inside a computer.
Lovers in like manner live on their capital from failure of income: they, too, for the sake of stifling apprehension and piping to the present hour, are lavish of their stock, so as rapidly to attenuate it: they have their fits of intoxication in view of coming famine: they force memory into play, love retrospectively, enter the old house of the past and ravage the larder, and would gladly, even resolutely, continue in illusion if it were possible for the broadest honey-store of reminiscences to hold out for a length of time against a mortal appetite: which in good sooth stands on the alternative of a consumption of the hive or of the creature it is for nourishing.
She was an Afghan refugee who had traded her stifling burqa for a Kevlar vest and combat gear.
Stifling a humph, he drew her a fraction closer--and set his mind to enjoying the rest of the waltz.
Stifling the urge, he led Lady Litton to her seat, made the brief introductions and indicated for Brighton to follow him before storming off.
Berating herself, she scrambled back into the stifling dusty confines of the manuka scrub.
Monsieur de la Mery found the atmosphere in this house a trifle stifling.
Australia was not what it should be, but even the wild mana and the chaos were preferable to the deadness of the metroplex and the stifling, oppressive gloom cast by the corporate skyscrapers.
Marathe stifled a shudder and pulled up his blanket slightly, hunching to minimalize the musculature of health of his upper torso, also.
Our economy is unstable, our culture is stagnating, our ambition has been misdirected and stifled.
American War Machine was but a gigantic, lumbering erection wedged into the tight pants of Democracy, stifled until the outburst of war prompts congressional rubbing and legislative foreplay and the uncontrollable spurting ejaculation of bombs and missles ensues as the nation COMES on the heads of a nation of Third World villagers.
And in many ways Jason Lawton, like Perihelion itself, remains under the stifling influence of his father.
She tried to pretend that this was all a game, but from time to time she heard Petter stifle a murmur of pain as he knocked his burned and bandaged hand in the darkness.
Shadow stifled a cry and then relaxed as he saw the bird soaring away, one foot down with Potro sitting on it, holding on to the leg, his own skinny legs sticking out in front.