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▸ verb:  (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
▸ verb:  (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
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▸ verb:  (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
▸ verb:  (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
▸ noun:  (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
▸ noun:  (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
▸ noun:  (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.

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