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Muzzle vs Stifle - What's the difference?

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Muzzle is a synonym of stifle.


As nouns the difference between muzzle and stifle

is that muzzle is the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout while stifle is boots.

As a verb muzzle

is to bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

muzzle

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout
  • The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.
  • A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle
  • (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

    • Derived terms

    * muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocity

    Verb

    (muzzl)
  • To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4
    • Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
  • (figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
  • (obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
  • (obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
  • * (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange
    • The bear muzzles and smells to him.

    Derived terms

    * muzzler

    References

    * *

    stifle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
  • (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.

    • Verb

    (stifl)
  • To interrupt or cut off.
  • To repress, keep in or hold back.
  • * Waterland
    • I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled .
  • * , chapter=15
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Norwich 3-3 Blackburn , passage=In fact, there was no suggestion of that, although Wolves deployed men behind the ball to stifle the league leaders in a first-half that proved very frustrating for City.}}
  • To smother or suffocate.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
  • To feel smothered etc.
  • To die of suffocation.
  • To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

    • Synonyms

    * (to die of suffocation) See also * (To repress or hold back) hinder, restrain, suppress, throttle

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