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stifle


stifle - noun

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

    • stifle - verb

    • conceal or hide
    • smother or suppress
    • impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
    • be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen

    stifle - thesaurus

    asphyxiate   choke   dampen   knee   muffle   repress   smother   strangle   suffocate  


    View spelling list Words ending in fle and learn about the word stifle in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 26. Word endings: -le, and exceptions e.g. al, el, ol.

    Scrabble score for stifle

    s is 1 t is 1 i is 1 f is 4 l is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 9

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