Synonyms for stifle
ˈstaɪ fəlsti·fle

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1. stifleverb

   To repress, keep in or hold back.

   The army stifled the rebellion.

   Synonyms:
   restrain, throttle, hinder, suppress

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1. stifle

   Synonyms:
   cool, extinguish, put out, smother, subdue

   Antonyms:
   blaze, brand, burn, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, set on fire, singe

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1. stifle

   Synonyms:
   choke, suffocate, smother, throttle, quench, repress, suppress, extinguish, burke

   Antonyms:
   ventilate, discuss, promulgate, propound

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1. stifle, kneeverb

   joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

   Synonyms:
   articulatio genus, knee, knee joint, human knee, genu

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

2. smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repressverb

   conceal or hide

   "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

   Synonyms:
   keep down, cramp, muffle, surround, quash, halter, suppress, asphyxiate, subjugate, gag, mute, strangulate, throttle, reduce, hamper, repress, put out, damp, suffocate, dull, smother, choke, dampen, tone down, strangle, subdue

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

3. stifle, dampenverb

   smother or suppress

   "Stifle your curiosity"

   Synonyms:
   asphyxiate, muffle, mute, moisten, dull, weaken, repress, break, soften, tone down, suffocate, wash, smother, choke, deaden, damp, dampen, strangle

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

4. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, chokeverb

   impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

   "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

   Synonyms:
   drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, dampen, go, pass, choke off, die, smother, suffocate, exit, congest, scrag, muffle

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

5. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiateverb

   be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen

   "The child suffocated under the pillow"

   Synonyms:
   suffocate, asphyxiate, gag, muffle, strangle, repress, smother, choke, dampen

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

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1. • Die
   • Obstruct

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1. choke (verb)

   obstruct one’s throat

   she choked on a tiny fish bone

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

2. choke back (verb)

   fail to control one’s emotions

   they choked back tears (feelings; anger; disappointment, etc.)

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

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1. stifleverb

   Synonyms:
   smother, choke, suffocate

2. stifleverb

   Synonyms:
   suppress, repress, check, deaden, stop, destroy, extinguish, quench

3. stifleverb

   Synonyms:
   still, hush, silence, muffle, muzzle, gag

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1. List of paraphrases for "stifle":

   suffocate, smother, strangle, suppress, nip, choke, repress, quell, oppress, muffle

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How to use stifle in a sentence?

1. Anne Louise Germaine de Staël:

   The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

2. Chamber President Joerg Wuttke:

   These worrying trends illustrate how excessive tightening of Internet controls can choke business growth and stifle investment in technology and research and development, it is therefore hugely dispiriting to see numerous member companies actively scaling back investment and expansion, and diverting their spending to other markets.

3. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:

   We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

4. Tony Tyler:

   At every aviation conference, everyone agrees market access controls and ownership restrictions are a bad idea and should be done away with and' let's go to global open skies', but it doesn't happen, and I can only think that is because... governments stifle it. That for all their high intentions, governments quite like it the way it is or at least can't think of a system they'd prefer to have.

5. Peter Tuz:

   The fear is that price controls stifle innovation. It hasn't happened yet, they'll have to sharpen their pencils and recalculate what their outlook is for new drugs and whether they're worth still developing.