"Stifle" is a word in ENGLISH
The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the
hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to
the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.
To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother;
to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle
passion.
To stop the breath of by crowding something into the
windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to
choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle
one with smoke or dust.
To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to
stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or
because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the universal against the precariousness of the individual. When the values that were once so solid come under challenge and withdraw, heads bowed, he who cannot live without them (without fidelity, family, country, discipline, without love) buttons himself up in the universality of his uniform as if that uniform were the last shred of transcendence that could protect him against the cold of a future in which there will be nothing left to respect.
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aguk-uk v [A; b3] laugh vigorously in suppressed or stifled laugh-ter. Muaguk-uk giyud kug katáwa kun mahinumdum ku, I break …
Read the complete definitionbóhot - Sultriness, closeness, heat; to be or become sultry, close, hot, stuffy, stifling. Nagabóhot ang tiémpo. The weather is …
Read the complete definitionTo hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
Read the complete definitionTo render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
Read the complete definitionObscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
Read the complete definitionTo quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an …
Read the complete definitionláming v [A; c1] {1} confine an animal for the purpose of con-trolling its food prior to slaughtering. Lamíngun ang …
Read the complete definitionv. /MA--AN/ to be suffocated, stifled, or smothered with heat, as in a dense crowd.
Read the complete definitionlúum v [A; c] put s.t. entirely into the mouth. Íyang gilúum ang usa ka buuk pán, He put the …
Read the complete definitionmagín-ot - Close, sultry, hot, stuffy, torrid, sweltry, boiling, roasting, baking, stifling, scorching, suffocating (of heat). (cf. gín-ot, mabóhot).
Read the complete definitionpamúut - Freq. of púut—to stifle, suffocate, choke.
Read the complete definitionpingakpíngak v [A] breathe laboriously with a wheezing sound in the breast, as in stifling a sob or in an …
Read the complete definitionpug-uk v [A3P; a12] {1} hold s.t. back to prevent growth or development. Ang maung baláud nagpug-uk sa átung nasudnun …
Read the complete definitionpuút - Stopped, discontinued, ceased, finished; to stop, discontinue, desist, stay, give over, end, break—, leave—, off, finish, make an …
Read the complete definitionTo stifle or choke.
Read the complete definitionTo suffocate or stifle; to smother.
Read the complete definitionStifling smoke; thick dust.
Read the complete definitionTo be suffocated or stifled.
Read the complete definitionTending to smother; stifling.
Read the complete definitionTo stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
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