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Stifler

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Noun

1. smotherer, stifler

a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses

Example Sentences:
'he is a real conversation stifler'
'I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Stifler

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verb
1. (transitive)
to smother or suppress
stifle a cough
2. 
to feel or cause to feel discomfort and difficulty in breathing
3. 
to prevent or be prevented from breathing so as to cause death
4. (transitive)
to crush or stamp out
noun
the joint in the hind leg of a horse, dog, etc, between the femur and tibia

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Stifler

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈstifled or ˈstifling
1. 
to kill by cutting off the supply of air from; suffocate; smother; choke
2. 
to suppress or repress; hold back; check, stop, inhibit, etc.
to stifle a sob, to stifle protests
verb intransitive
3. 
to die from lack of air
4. 
to suffer from lack of fresh, cool air
noun
the kneelike joint above the hock in the hind leg of a horse, dog, etc.
: also stifle joint

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Stifler

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tr.v. sti·fled, sti·fling, sti·fles
1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
2. To keep in or hold back; repress: stifled my indignation.
3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.

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