stifle

• To stop
• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
• be asphyxiated
• smother or suppress
• joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped
• conceal or hide
• The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals
• To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs
• To suppress the manifestation or report of
• To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration

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