Difference between Stifle and Dampen

What is the difference between Stifle and Dampen?

Stifle as a verb is to interrupt or cut off. while Dampen as a verb is to make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses. A bone disease of this region.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To interrupt or cut off. To repress, keep in or hold back. To smother or suffocate. To feel smothered etc. To die of suffocation.

Example sentence: I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.To become damp; to deaden.

We hope you now know whether to use Stifle or Dampen in your sentence.