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: We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Suffocate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.To die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body.To be overwhelmed by a person or issue, surrounded as though being deprived of oxygen.To cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body.To kill a person or creature by depriving it of sufficient oxygen intake.To make weary with excessive and prolonged contact, as though depriving of oxygen.