Stifle vs Reserved - What's the difference?
stifle | reserved |
A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
(veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
To interrupt or cut off.
To repress, keep in or hold back.
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, title= * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport
, title= To smother or suffocate.
* (John Dryden)
* (Jonathan Swift)
To feel smothered etc.
To die of suffocation.
To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.
(reserve)
(comparable) Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
(not comparable) Set aside for the use of a particular person or party.
As a noun stifle
is boots.As a verb reserved is
(reserve).As an adjective reserved is
(comparable) slow to reveal emotion or opinions.stifle
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stifl)- I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled .
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.}}
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.}}
- Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
- I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
Synonyms
* (to die of suffocation) See also * (To repress or hold back) hinder, restrain, suppress, throttlereserved
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a quiet, reserved person.
- I'm sorry, sir, but these are reserved seats.