Stifle

Definition: Stifle

Stifle

Noun

1. Joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee.

Verb

1. Conceal, suppress, or hide; "smother a yawn".

2. Smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity".

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Date "stifle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Stifle \Sti"fle\, noun. [From Stiff.]. (Websters 1913)

Food & Agriculture

Health

Mining

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Synonyms: Stifle

Concealment

Keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore.

Killing

Strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.

Crosswords: Stifle

Silence is golden, so stifle thy self! (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

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Books

• Entrepreneurship in America : how government regulations stifle job creation and small business growth : hearing before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, February 14, 1996 (reference)

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General Westmoreland is trying to stifle dissent. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stifle yourself!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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France exists to arouse the soul of the peoples, not to stifle it.

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Health

Moreover, restrictive regulations could stifle innovation that may enhance functioning and quality of life for residents with ADRD, their families, and staff caregivers (Ory, 1995). As the concept of specialized care moves into other community-based settings such as adult daycare centers and assisted living, it becomes increasingly important to be able to define what makes special care "special," and to articulate the effect associated with different types of specialized dementia care across the entire continuum of care settings. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

Opposition leaders stated that the crackdown on political expression on campus would stifle students' intellectual development. (references)

Morocco

Domestic critics and human rights activists have long criticized such provisions that widely are perceived to repress and stifle freedom of expression. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Elsewhere in the Federation, the new Government exerted pressure on journalists to stifle critical press stories and journalists reported frequent calls and visits from government officials applying pressure to change editorial policies. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

Inefficient state-owned enterprises (SOEs) continue to stifle Bangladesh's potential for greater economic performance. (references)

Kenya

There are some government regulations - especially the quantity ceiling requirement - that sometimes stifle importation, but these are gradually being eased. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Although Ahmadis serving in the bureaucracy used to report few problems with their advancement and ability to serve in senior positions, in the past few years Ahamdis claim that even the rumor that someone may be an Ahmadi or have Ahmadi relatives can stifle opportunities for employment or promotion. (references)

Political Economy

Iran

The Government uses the judiciary to stifle dissent and obstruct progress on human rights. (references)

Political Rights

Congo

However, in 2000 the Government repeatedly used its power to stifle any meaningful dialog. (references)

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Expressions using "stifle": stifle a noise ♦ stifle bone ♦ stifle joint. Additional references.

Albanian

ndrydh (check, clench, constrain, dislocate, jam, sprain, subdue, suppress, turn, vice, wrench, wrick), mbyt (asphyxiate, assail, blanket, choke, deluge, drown, jugulate, smother, strangle, suffocate, throttle, wreck), i zë frymën (overlie, squeeze, strangle, suffocate, wind). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كظم (repress, repression), ‏كبت (bridle, check, contain, down, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep, keep back, repress, repression, restrain, restraint, subdue, suppress, suppression, withhold), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏خنق (asphyxiate, choke, flummox, garrote, neck, overlay, overpower, sizzle, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, stultify, suffocate, suffocation, throttle, throttling, worry), ‏إختنق (asphyxiate, choke, smother, strangle, suffocate), ‏أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, lay, muffle, oppress, put out, quench, scotch, slake, smolder, smoulder, squelch, subside, suppress, trail off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удушавам (mug, strangle, strangulate, suffocate), сподавям (repress, strangle), сдържам (command, contain, guard, pocket, press back, repress, restrain, smother, suppress), гася (blow out, extinguish, quench, slack, slake), замазвам (gloss, gloss over, lute, seal, slur over, smarm, smooth out, soft pedal, varnish, veneer), задушавам (asphyxiate, braise, choke, damp, jug, jugulate, overlie, poach, smother, stew, strangle, suffocate, throttle), потулвам (blanket, clamp, conceal, hugger mugger, hush up, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet), душа (breast, ghost, heart, inside, lifeblood, mastermind, nature, nose, nuzzle, psyche, quest, scent, scrag, smell, smell about, smother, sniff, soul, spirit, throttle). (various references)

Chinese 

�'息 (choke, suffocate), 抑止 (stifled, stifling), 憋 (hold back, hold in, restrain, to choke, to hold). (various references)

Czech

utlumit (inhibit, nip, scale down), umlèet (hush, muzzle, scotch, shut up, silence, squash, still), potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stop, subdue, suppress, tame), přemoci (conquer, defeat, fight down, master, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, reduce, surmount, swallow, vanquish), dusit se (choke, choke up, stew, suffocate). (various references)

Danish

knae (flank groin(beef and horse), stifle joint), bagknae (flank groin(beef and horse), stifle joint). (various references)

Dutch

knie (knee). (various references)

Farsi 

فرونشاندن (Appease, Calm, Curb, Extinguish, Infix, Lull, Pacify, Quash, Quell, Quench, Relieve, Remit, Repress, Sate, Slack, Soften, Stanch, Suppress, Tranquilize), خفه کردن (Asphyxiate, Choke, Extinguish, Mute, Scrag, Shutup, Smolder, Smother, Squash, Strangle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle), خاموش کردن (Extinguish, Hush, Out, Quench, Smolder, Smother, Stanch, Suffocate). (various references)

Finnish

polvinivel (knee-joint), polvi (bend, generation, knee). (various references)

French

se suffoquer, réprimer, grasset (stifle joint), entraver, étouffer. (various references)

German

ersticken (asphyxiate, be suffocated, become choked, choke, choke up, damp, muffle, muzzle, quell, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle, to asphyxiate, to smother, to stifle). (various references)

Greek 

πνίγω (choke, drown, muffle, overwhelm, smother, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לח� וק (choke, garrote, strangle, strangulate), ל�"ח� יק (asphyxiate, choke, smother, strangle), ל�"כא (aggrieve, fight down, oppress, squelch, subdue, suppress). (various references)

Hungarian

fojtogat (to choke, to scrag, to stifle, to strangle, to throttle), elolt (blow out, extinguish, to extinguish, to quench, to slake, to smother, to turn off, turn off). (various references)

Italian

soffocare (choke, quell, smother, squash, stamp out, suffocate, suppress, swelter), grassella (flank groin(beef and horse), stifle joint), grasciola (flank groin(beef and horse), stifle joint), grascella (flank groin(beef and horse), stifle joint). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

噛殺す (to bite to death), 噛み殺す (to bite to death), 圧し殺す (to crush to death, to squeeze to death, to stifle to death), 反乱�'抑える (to stifle a rebellion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おし�"ろす (to crush to death, to squeeze to death, to stifle to death), かみ�"ろす (to bite to death), は�"ら�"�'おさえる (to stifle a rebellion). (various references)

Korean 

질식시키십시�" (smother). (various references)

Manx

plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choke, choking, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, muffle, restrain, smother, smothering, suffocate, suffocation, tamp), mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, damp, drown, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, suppress, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Pig Latin

iflestay

Portuguese

sufocar (choke, quell, smother, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), soldra (flank groin(beef and horse), stifle joint), reprimir (allay, arrest, bit, bridle, check, coerce, constrain, control, cork, douse, forbear, gulp, halt, keep back, keep down, overbear, quell, quench, refrain, rein in, repress, restrain, stop, subdue, suppress, throttle, tutor, vanquish), jugular (jugulate), babilha (flank groin(beef and horse), stifle joint), asfixiar (asphyxiate, burke, choke, smother, suffocate), abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cover up, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, muffle, pilfer, quell, smother, steal the show, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Romanian

sugruma (Burke, choke, jugulate, smother, strangle, suppress, throttle), sufoca (asphyxiate, choke, smother, suffocate, throttle), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), se sufoca (choke, gag, smother, strangle), se asfixia (smother), nãduşi (suffocate, sweat), înfrânge (bear down, beat down, best, break, curb, defeat, foil, knock, master, overcome, overmatch, overpower, pip, vanquish, worsen, worst), îneca (choke, deluge, drown, float, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, smother, steep, suffocate, suffuse, swamp), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Russian 

гасить (extinguish, put out, quench), подавлять (bring under, browbeat, depress, grind, keep down, mortify, overbear, overpower, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, smother, subdue, suppress, whelm), душить (choke, scent, smother, smothers, stifle joint, strangle, strangles, strangulate, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stall, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Spanish

sofocarse (choke, flush, smother, suffocate), sofocar (asphyxiate, break, choke, nearly die, put down, put out, quell, quench, smother, suffocate, suffocation, suppress, throttle), babilla (flank groin(beef and horse), stifle joint), ahogarse (choke, drown, smother, suffocate, throttle), ahogar (choke, damp, dampen, drown, kill, oppress, quash, smother, stalemate, strangling, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Swedish

kväva (asphyxiate, choke, damp, dampen, smother, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้หายใจไม่ออก (choke), อ�"กลั้น (forbear, hold), หายใจไม่ออก (suffocate), ข้อต่อระหว่างกระ�"ูกโคนขากับหน้าแข้งของสัตว์. (various references)

Turkish

zaptetmek (bridle, capture, contain, govern, hold back, hold down, hold in, keep down, possess oneself of, reave, seize, subjugate, suppress, swallow), tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), tıkanmak (be choked up, be jammed, be stopped, be stuffy, choke, choke up, clog, come to a deadlock, congest, deadlock, foul up, suffocate), diz eklemi (knee joint, stifle joint), diz (knee), boğulmak (be drowned, choke, get drowned, smother, splutter, sputter, suffocate), boğmak (asphyxiate, Burke, choke, drown, glut, inundate, jugulate, overwhelm, smother, smother with, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle, whelm), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

удушення (stranglehold), ядуха (asphyxia, asthma, choke, suffocation), колінний суглоб, заглушати (damp, deaf, deafen, drown, muffle, narcotize), задихатися (asphyxiate, choke, gasp, pant, smother, strangle, suffocate, throttle), душити (asphyxiate, champ, choke, smother, strangulate, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Welsh

tagu (asphyxiate, choke, strangle), mygu (asphyxiate, smoke, smother, suffocate). (various references)

conpresserit, conpresserunt, conprimaris, conprimebant, conprimentem, conprimerent, conprimit, conprimunt, premo, strangulare, suffoco. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stifle": stifled, stifler, stiflers, stifles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stifle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: satefl, siftlik, stafel, staffie, Steafel, steifle, Stelfox, stife, stifel, stiffle, stille, stitle, stufe. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: filets, fliest, flites, itself.

-1 letter: feist, felts, files, filet, flies, flite, flits, islet, istle, lefts, lifts, stile, tiles.

-2 letters: efts, felt, fets, file, fils, fist, fits, flit, isle, left, leis, lest, lets, lief, lies, life, lift, list, lite, lits, seif, self, sift, silt, site, slit, tels, ties, tile, tils.

-3 letters: efs, eft, elf, els, fet, fie, fil, fit.

+1 letter: felsite, fetials, fillets, filmset, filters, lefties, leftish, leftism, leftist, liefest, lifters, stifled, stifler, stifles, sulfite, trifles.

+2 letters: botflies, fealties, felsites, felsitic, feltings, festival, fetiales, fetialis, fewtrils, ficklest, filberts, filiates, filister, filmiest, filmsets, fistulae, flakiest, flamiest, flatwise, flawiest, flaxiest, fleapits, flippest, flirters, flitches, flitters, flukiest, flutiest, flytiers, foliates, frailest, giftless, gulfiest, inflates, inflects, leafiest, leftisms, leftists, loftiest, lutefisk, outflies, riftless, spiteful, stellify, stiflers, sulfites, swiftlet, tilefish, trefoils, triflers.