Synonyms for stifle
ˈstaɪ fəlsti·fle

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1. stifleverb

   To repress, keep in or hold back.

   The army stifled the rebellion.

   Synonyms:
   restrain, throttle, hinder, suppress

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1. stifle

   Synonyms:
   cool, extinguish, put out, smother, subdue

   Antonyms:
   blaze, brand, burn, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, set on fire, singe

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1. stifle

   Synonyms:
   choke, suffocate, smother, throttle, quench, repress, suppress, extinguish, burke

   Antonyms:
   ventilate, discuss, promulgate, propound

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1. stifle, kneeverb

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

   Synonyms:
   articulatio genus, knee, knee joint, human knee, genu

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

2. smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repressverb

   conceal or hide

   "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

   Synonyms:
   keep down, cramp, muffle, surround, quash, halter, suppress, asphyxiate, subjugate, gag, mute, strangulate, throttle, reduce, hamper, repress, put out, damp, suffocate, dull, smother, choke, dampen, tone down, strangle, subdue

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

3. stifle, dampenverb

   smother or suppress

   "Stifle your curiosity"

   Synonyms:
   asphyxiate, muffle, mute, moisten, dull, weaken, repress, break, soften, tone down, suffocate, wash, smother, choke, deaden, damp, dampen, strangle

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

4. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, chokeverb

   impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

   "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

   Synonyms:
   drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, dampen, go, pass, choke off, die, smother, suffocate, exit, congest, scrag, muffle

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

5. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiateverb

   be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen

   "The child suffocated under the pillow"

   Synonyms:
   suffocate, asphyxiate, gag, muffle, strangle, repress, smother, choke, dampen

   Antonyms:
   stimulate, excite

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1. • Die
   • Obstruct

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1. choke (verb)

   obstruct one’s throat

   she choked on a tiny fish bone

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

2. choke back (verb)

   fail to control one’s emotions

   they choked back tears (feelings; anger; disappointment, etc.)

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

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1. stifleverb

   Synonyms:
   smother, choke, suffocate

2. stifleverb

   Synonyms:
   suppress, repress, check, deaden, stop, destroy, extinguish, quench

3. stifleverb

   Synonyms:
   still, hush, silence, muffle, muzzle, gag

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1. List of paraphrases for "stifle":

   suffocate, smother, strangle, suppress, nip, choke, repress, quell, oppress, muffle

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1. Ernest Renan:

   Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

2. Chip Roy:

   This latest revelation proves the CDC is rolling full steam ahead with their censorship campaign against citizens who speak up, this new scheme to use taxpayer money – intended to further scientific inquiry – to instead stifle researchers and anyone who dares dissent from the Biden administration's ever-changing COVID narrative is unsurprising and unacceptable.

3. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz:

   Which has greater innovation: the United States Post Office, or Facebook and Twitter? Which has greater innovation: Taxi commissions in local cities, or Lyft and Uber? Every time you put unelected bureaucrats in charge of the market, they stifle innovation.

4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:

   We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

5. Imran Sarker:

   They want peace, they talk of humanity. If you strike them with stones, they don't strike back. They try to reach you with flowers, so, if you want to sow fear and stifle progressive thought, they are easy to pick on.