LekhoriLekhoriTo make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
An act or state of being stifled.
The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
The verb is derived from Late Middle English stuflen (“to have difficulty breathing due to heat, stifle; to suffocate by drowning, drown”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain, perhaps from ...
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