stifle
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
Types & categories
- joint hypernym
Parts & wholes
- hind leg part holonym
Sense 2 verb
conceal or hide
smother a yawn
Types & categories
- suppress hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
smother or suppress
Stifle your curiosity
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
Types & categories
- obturate hypernym
Related & opposite
- asphyxia derivation
- asphyxiation derivation
- choking derivation
- smothering derivation
Sense 5 verb
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
The child suffocated under the pillow
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- suffocation derivation
- asphyxia derivation
- asphyxiation derivation
- smothering derivation
- suffocate verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | hind leg |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | joint |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crushing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stifler |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | suppress |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | stimulate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | stifler |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | suppress |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | suffocate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | asphyxia |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | asphyxiation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | choking |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | smothering |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | obturate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | suffocation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | asphyxia |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | asphyxiation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | smothering |
| 5 | verb group | Related & opposite | suffocate |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | die |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | strangle |