Word Meanings - STIFLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint;

Additional info about word: STIFLE

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. Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STIFLE)

• Burke
• Stifle
• shelve
• strangle
• smother
• Choke
• Throttle
• gag
• burke
• suffocate
• stifle
• Gag
• Silence
• muzzle
• hush
• Quell
• Extinguish
• destroy
• crush
• reduce
• allay
• quiet
• pacify
• quench
• repress
• suppress
• calm
• put out
• subdue
• overpower
• Shelve
• Dismiss
• discard
• swamp
• shift

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STIFLE)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to STIFLE)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• CHOKECHERRY
  The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• SUFFOCATE
  Suffocated; choked. Shak.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.