Overview of noun stifle

The noun stifle has 1 sense

• stifle, knee -- (joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee)

Overview of verb stifle

The verb stifle has 4 senses

• smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress -- (conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn")


• stifle, dampen -- (smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity")


• suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke -- (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children")


• suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate -- (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow")