allow vs stifle

allow

verb
  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

stifle

verb
  • To keep in, hold back, or repress (something). 

  • To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat. 

  • To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium. 

  • To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress. 

  • To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling. 

  • To feel smothered; to find it difficult to breathe. 

  • To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint. 

  • To die of suffocation. 

  • To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate. 

  • To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production. 

noun
  • An act or state of being stifled. 

  • A bone disease of this region. 

  • The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans. 

How often have the words allow and stifle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )