stifle
I
verb
annihilate, arrest, balk, bar, block, check, choke, conceal, constrain, contain, control, crush, damp, deaden, destroy, drown, dull, extinguish, frustrate, gag, hush, inhibit, kill, mask, muffle, mute, muzzle, obstruct, opprimere, prevent, put down, quell, quench, repress, reprimere, restrain, silence, smother, snuff out, squash, squelch, still, stop, strangle, strangulate, stymie, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle, withhold
II
index
arrest (stop), cloak, clog, constrict (inhibit), debar, diminish, extinguish, forestall, impair, inhibit, keep (restrain), repress, restrain, restrict, stop, suppress, thwart, withhold
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006