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Stifle As A Sound Crossword Clue

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99%6Exact Match!
verb

• make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

• cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

• make vapid or deprive of spirit

• lessen the momentum or velocity of

• become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor

• make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

• convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil

46%8Stifle or stifle
noun

• Restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains)

• The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing.

• The strap or part of the harness so used.

38%6Stifle the sound
verb

• be unbearably loud

• make or render deaf

• make soundproof

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New York Times14 Oct 2024 Down 44
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