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Stifle
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
(2):
(v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
(3):
(v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
(4):
(v. t.) 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.
(5):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stifle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/stifle.html. 1828.
