Stifle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STIFLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to smother
• make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate
• restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion)
• prevent or constrain (an activity or idea)
• 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.
• To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
• To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
• To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
• conceal or hide
• smother or suppress
• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
• be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
• suppress
NOUN:
• a joint in the legs of horses, dogs, and other animals, equivalent to the knee in humans.
• 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.
• joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
• joint in the hind leg of a horse, dog, etc

Words related to STIFLE

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Words that contain STIFLE

stifled11 stifler10 stifles10 stiflers11 unstifled13

How to use STIFLE in a sentence

• It would strangle liberty, stifle the arts, silence thought, and deny God.
• Yet what anguish it was when she suddenly began to stifle, all alone in the empty house, without son or husband near her! She called nobody since she knew that nobody would come.
• There was the horror of all horrors, the close prison which seemed to stifle her whole soul.
• I can stifle any violent Inclination, and oppose a Torrent of Anger, or the Sollicitations of Revenge, with Success.
• Minds in the state of theirs seize on any supposed injury to brood over and stifle their own reproaches.
• The terrified Angel caught him in her arms and tried to stifle the sound.
• He was a rich man, and therefore had no temptation to sell or stifle his opinions for place.
• It has been often said that he who begins life by stifling his convictions is in a fair way for ending it without any convictions to stifle.
• Now, however, it had triumphed, casting its thick net over the city as if eager to stifle the pulsing life of the new Babylon.
• Kerry began to regard the one-eyed Chinaman with a superstitious fear which he strove in vain to stifle.
• But to what avail? All things would conspire to make him conform and stifle the revolt within.
• He wrapped himself closer in his blanket and drew his belt tighter about his slender waist, trying to stifle the hunger gnawing there.
• The room seemed to stifle him, so he went to the door and stood there, silent and alone.
• So much had he lately changed his point of view, that only the fear of seeing his former creed confirmed could have now availed to stifle his confession.
• He forced himself to stifle his conscience in trying to prove that he was not guilty.
• Hip lameness causes outward rolling of the leg in trotting, and wasting of the muscles of stifle and hip leads to a characteristic drop.
• O woman, be strong! O wife, be calm! keep back the tears, stifle the anguish, of that heaving breast.
• He began to work at the age of fifteen, and took to smoking and drinking in order to stifle a dense sense of being wronged.
• At last he heard her stifle a sob and looked round.
• If I, having a son, were enamoured of the most beautiful woman in the world, and she required me to forget that son, I would stifle my passion sooner than abandon the little one.
• But she tried to stifle the voice of conscience by entering more and more into worldly amusements, until she had lost nearly all spiritual sense.
• Already doubts and misgivings had given way, and the North was now practically unanimous in its determination to stifle rebellion.
• We must try to regulate our passions or they will master us, stifle what is really good in us.

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