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Definition stifle

Etymology

From Middle English stiflen, from Old Norse stífla (“to dam, choke, stop up”), from stífla (“dam”), from Proto-Germanic *st?filaz, *st?fil? (“prop, pole, support”), from Proto-Indo-European *steip-, *steib- (“stake, picket”). Cognate with Icelandic stífla (“to dam up, jam, block”), Norwegian stivla (“to dam up, choke, stop”), Low German stipel (“support wood”).

Noun

stifle (plural stifles)

1. A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
2. (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.

Verb

stifle (third-person singular simple present stifles, present participle stifling, simple past and past participle stifled)

1. (transitive) To interrupt or cut off.
2. (transitive) To repress, keep in or hold back.
3. (transitive) To smother or suffocate.
4. (intransitive) To feel smothered etc.
5. (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
6. (transitive) To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

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