Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - stifle
Stifle
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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I. noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century the joint next above the hock in the hind leg of a quadruped (as a horse or dog) corresponding to the human knee, II. verb (~d; stifling) Etymology: alteration of Middle English stuflen Date: 1513 transitive verb 1. to kill by depriving of oxygen ; suffocate, b. smother, muffle, 2. to cut off (as the voice or breath), to withhold from circulation or expression ; repress , deter, discourage, intransitive verb to become suffocated by or as if by lack of oxygen ; smother , ~r noun stiflingly adverb ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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