Definiciones
1.VerbTo make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
2.VerbTo cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling."The heat was stifling the children."
3.VerbTo prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
4.VerbTo make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
5.VerbTo keep in, hold back, or repress (something)."The army stifled the rebellion."
6.VerbTo keep in, hold back, or repress (something)."The army stifled the rebellion."
7.VerbTo prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
8.VerbTo treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
9.VerbTo die of suffocation."Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom."
10.VerbTo smother; to make breathing difficult."This heat is stifling."
11.NounAn act or state of being stifled.
12.NounThe joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
13.NounA bone disease of this region.
14.VerbTo cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.