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Synonyms
sti·fle1 (stī́fəl)

[Middle English stifilen, alteration (influenced by Old Norse stīfla, to stop up), of stuffen, stuflen, to stifle, choke, drown, from Old French estoufer, of Germanic origin.]

verb: -fled, -fling, -fles. 

transitive verb 

  1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
  2. To keep in or hold back; repress: stifled my indignation.
  3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.

intransitive verb 

  1. To feel smothered or suffocated by or as if by close confinement in a stuffy room.
  2. To die of suffocation.

derivatives

stífler
noun
sti·fle2 (stī́fəl)

[Middle English, possibly from Old French estivel, pipe, leg, tibia, from Latin stīpes, stick.]

noun 

The joint of the hind leg analogous to the human knee in certain quadrupeds, such as the horse.