| 单词 | stifle |
| 释义 | stifle 1. v. 1. tr. smother, suppress (stifled a yawn). 2. intr. & tr. experience or cause to experience constraint of breathing (stifling heat). 3. tr. kill by suffocating. Derivatives stifler n. stiflingly adv. Etymology: perh. alt. of ME stuffe, stuffle f. OF estouffer 2. n. (in full stifle-joint) a joint in the legs of horses, dogs, etc., equivalent to the knee in humans. Phrases and idioms stifle-bone the bone in front of this joint. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn. |
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