A wet cloth will temporarily stifle the smoke that is emanating from the hole in the wall.
Please stifle the noise of that vacuum .
Sample sentence: I will no longer allow my supervisor to stifle my creative mind.
The smell in the room was sure to stifle them. They tried to stifle his progress by putting more obstacles in the way.
I tried to stifle my cough in the library because I am supposed to be quiet.
I stifled a sneeze by pinching my nose.
I got stifled after that crowd literally killed me.
Ever since the big earthquake, I jump at every little tremor. It's not easy to stifle a tremor.
No, because if you stifle something you're suppressing, curbing, or withholding it
The noun stifle is the rear 'knee joint' of a horse.
Stifle (Stifle Joint) Underlying the stifle area is the stifle joint formed between the large hip bone (femur) which is equivalent to our thigh bone and the tibia, equivalent to our shin bone. The stifle joint somewhat resembles a human knee.
None are so narrow - minded as those who wish to stifle the free exercise of religion
The stifle on a horse is the equivalent of a human knee.
A horse's stifle is equal to the knee of a human.