stifle: 意味と定義

To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).

To keep in or hold back; repress: stifled my indignation.

To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.

To feel smothered or suffocated by or as if by close confinement in a stuffy room.

To die of suffocation.

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