Clues for the word "STIFLE"
We've had 64 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 132 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 14, 2026.
Definition of stifle
- n. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
- v. t. - To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
- v. i. - To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
Referring Clues
- Curb
- Squelch
- Suppress
- Choke
- Smother
- Archie's admonition to Edith
- Sit on, in a way
- Keep in
- Quell
- Archie Bunker's plea to Edith
- Withhold
- Bunker's "Quiet!"
- Archie Bunker's command
- Repress
- Put the kibosh on
- Suppress, as a yawn
- Crush
- Bunker's "Quiet!"
- Archie's exhortation to Edith
- Archie's command to Edith
- Supress
- Supress
- Suffocate
- Restrain
- Archie Bunker order
- Hold in, as a sneeze
- Hold back, as a laugh
- Hold back, as a yawn
- "Quiet!" to Archie Bunker
- It's an anagram of itself
- Inhibit
- Suppress, as a cough
- Asphyxiate - itself (anag)
- Repress - asphyxiate
- Dessert not right after second scotch
- Smother - 6 down (anag)
- What a muffler will do?
- To repress lecturer going through first of epileptic seizures, stood up
- Choke is left out
- Suppress mounting attacks on the French
- Check a word that is an anagram of itself
- Gag is left out
- Archie Bunker command
- Suppress joint
- Suppress the way life unfolded
- Smother, suppress
- Smother, check
- Suppress; smother
- Smother saint leading dissolute life
- Hold back stone weapon, dropping resistance
- Choke from ___
- Suppress loud (music) in crossing
- Fight back
- Hamper
- Suppress for a time the files assembled about it
- Hold back, as a cough
- Conceal, hide or suppress
- Hold back
- Suppress, like a yawn
- What a muffler will do?
- ___ a yawn (hide your boredom)
- Bottle up
- Tamp down
- Is felt mistakenly to suppress
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - October 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 01, 2025
- New York Times - January 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 17, 2025
- Daily American - October 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 18, 2024
- USA Today - March 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 01, 2023
- LA Times - July 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 24, 2023
- USA Today - December 22, 2022
- USA Today - December 14, 2022
- Daily American - October 10, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 14, 2022
- LA Times - December 07, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 19, 2017
- USA Today - August 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 10, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 08, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday - August 06, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - July 07, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 04, 2017
- Universal - June 15, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 18, 2017
- Netword - January 31, 2017
- Family Time - January 30, 2017
- And in 102 more crossword puzzles...