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stifle

English

  1. 🔊 joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped
  2. 🔊 suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
    “Stifle your curiosity”
  3. 🔊 be asphyxiated
    “The child suffocated under the pillow”
  4. 🔊 impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
    “The foul air was slowly suffocating the children”
  5. 🔊 suppress in order to conceal or hide
    “smother a yawn”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ahogar to stifle

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