Stifle
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: If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Knee
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to kneel topoke or strike with the knee
Part of speech: noun
Definition: In humans, the joint in the middle part of the leg.The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg.In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection pointA blow made with the knee; a kneeing
Example sentence: My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.