Stiflest vs Stiffest - What's the difference?

stiflest | stiffest |

As a verb stiflest

is (archaic) (stifle).

As an adjective stiffest is

(stiff) most rigid, most inflexible, most unbending.

stiflest

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (stifle)

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

Anagrams

* English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs

stiffest

English

Adjective

(head)

(stiff) Most rigid, most inflexible, most unbending.

stiff

English

Adjective

(er)

Of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.

*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff , retroussé moustache.

(lb) Of policies and rules and their application and enforcement, inflexible.

Of a person, formal in behavior, unrelaxed.

(lb) Harsh, severe.

Of muscles, or parts of the body, painful, as a result of excessive, or unaccustomed exercise.

Potent.

Dead, deceased.

Of a penis, erect.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "stiff")

Derived terms

* stiffy

Noun

(en noun)

An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff''''' or ''lucky '''stiff .

A Working Stiff' s Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember was published in 2003.

A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.

She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.

(slang) A cadaver, a dead person.

(US) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.

Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.

Verb

(en verb)

To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.

Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.

* 1946 , William Foote Whyte, Industry and Society , page 129

We asked one girl to explain how she felt when she was "stiffed ." She said, You think of all the work you've done and how you've tried to please [them…].

* 1992 , Stephen Birmingham, Shades of Fortune , page 451

You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed' by Adolph in his will. He really ' stiffed her , Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.

* 2007 , Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before , page 154

Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.