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Showing words for STIFLE using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Stifle

fistle, fliest, flites, itself, stifle

5 Letter Words for Stifle

feist, felis, felts, fetis, fiest, files, filet, flies, flite, flits, islet, istle, lefts, liefs, liest, lifts, lites, slite, steil, stife, stile, teils, tiles

4 Letter Words for Stifle

efts, elfs, elts, feil, feis, fels, felt, fest, fets, fiel, fies, file, fils, filt, fise, fist, fits, flet, flit, isle, itel, left, leis, lest, lets, lief, lies, life, lift, list, lite, lits, seif, seil, seit, self, selt, sife, sift, sile, silt, site, slit, stie, tefs, teil, teli, tels, ties, tile, tils

3 Letter Words for Stifle

efl, efs, eft, elf, eli, els, elt, est, fei, fes, fet, fie, fil, fit, flt, ife, ifs, ile, ise, isl, ist, its, lei, les, let, lie, lif, lis, lit, lst, sei, sel, set, sie, sif, sil, sit, sle, slt, tef, tel, tes, tie, til, tis, tsi

Definitions for Stifle

[1] to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
[2] to suppress, curb, or withhold: to stifle a yawn.
[3] to kill by impeding respiration; smother.
[4] to suffer from difficulty in breathing, as in a close atmosphere.
[5] to become stifled or suffocated.
[6] (in a horse or other quadruped) the joint between the femur and the tibia, corresponding anatomically to the human knee.
[7] (tr) to smother or suppress stifle a cough
[8] to feel or cause to feel discomfort and difficulty in breathing
[9] to prevent or be prevented from breathing so as to cause death
[10] (tr) to crush or stamp out
[11] the joint in the hind leg of a horse, dog, etc, between the femur and tibia

Words related to Stifle

muzzle, suppress, smother, repress, suffocate, curb, squelch, strangle, silence, asphyxiate, stultify, muffle, stagnate, stop, choke, cork, hush, trammel, kill, squash

Words nearby Stifle

stiff-man syndrome, stiff-necked, stiffen, stiffener, stiffy, stifle, stifling, stigma, stigmasterol, stigmatic, stigmatism

Origin of Stifle

21275–1325; Middle English < ?

Other words from Stifle

sti·fler , noun
un·sti·fled , adjective

Word origin for Stifle

C14: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Stifle

curb, muzzle, repress, silence, smother, squelch, strangle, suffocate, suppress, asphyxiate, burke, check, choke, constipate, cork, extinguish, gag, hush, kill, muffle, spike, squash, stagnate, stop, stultify, torpedo, trammel, black out, bring to screeching halt, choke back, clam up, clamp down, cover up, crack down, dry up, hold it down, hush up, put the lid on, shut up, sit on