stifle
41stifle — 1) itself 2) filets …
42stifle — v. a. 1. Smother, choke, suffocate. 2. Suppress, repress, check, deaden, stop, destroy, extinguish, quench. 3. Still, hush, silence, muffle, muzzle, gag, conceal, smother …
43stifle — v 1. smother, suffocate, asphyxiate, choke; strangle, burke, garrotte, throttle, Sl. scrag. 2. check, restrain, hold back, keep back, control, limit, circumscribe, restrict; prevent, preclude, make impossible; curb, repress, constrain, contain,… …
44stifle — sti·fle …
45stifle — verb Syn: suppress, smother, restrain, check, curb, silence, hinder, hamper, impede, prevent, inhibit Ant: encourage, let out …
46stifle — [ˈstaɪf(ə)l] verb 1) [T] to stop something from happening or developing 2) [I/T] to stop someone from breathing, or to have difficulty in breathing Syn: suffocate …
47stifle — n. joint above hock of horse, equivalent of human knee …
48stifle — Umi, u umi, pa apū; ikiiki, kikiki. ♦ Stifling sensation of inhaling smoke, kenakena …
49stifle — [14] Stiffle was probably adapted from Old French estouffer ‘choke, smother’. This in turn went back to a Vulgar Latin *extuffāre, which may have been a blend of *extūfāre ‘take a steam bath’ (source of English stew) and late Latin stuppāre ‘stop …
50stifle bone — the patella of the horse …