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Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame..

Deaf :: Deaf (a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

Extinguish :: Extinguish (v. t.) To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right..

Stifle :: Stifle (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..

Smother :: Smother (v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.

Scomfish :: Scomfish (v. t. & i.) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.

Stifler :: Stifler (n.) One who, or that which, stifles..

Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner..

Querken :: Querken (v. t.) To stifle or choke.

Stifled :: Stifle (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..

Smudge :: Smudge (v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

Suffocate :: Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

Stigmas :: Stifler (n.) See Camouflet.

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle..

Suffossion :: Suffocative (a.) Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion..

Stifling :: Stifled (imp. & p. p.) of Stifl.

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle..

Stifled :: Stifle (v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration..

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