stifle

Meaning of stifle

noun
  1. A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
  2. A bone disease of this region.
verb
  1. To interrupt or cut off.
  2. To repress, keep in or hold back.
    The army stifled the rebellion.
  3. To smother or suffocate.
    The heat was stifling the children.
  4. To feel smothered etc.
    The heat felt stifling.
  5. To die of suffocation.
    Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday's fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
  6. To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

Information about stifle

  • The plural form of stifle is: stifles.
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Hyphenation of stifle

sti-fle

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • stifle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

stifle synonyms

Meaning knee:

knee

Meaning smother:

smother, strangle, muffle, repress

Meaning dampen:

dampen

Meaning suffocate:

suffocate, asphyxiate, choke

Meaning :

hinder, restrain, suppress, throttle

Anagrams of stifle

filets, fistle, fliest, flites, itself

Words that rhyme with stifle

nifle, rifle, trifle, overstifle, restifle

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