stifle vs uplift

stifle

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

  • 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. 

uplift

verb
  • To aggravate; to increase. 

  • To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level. 

  • To be accepted for carriage on a flight. 

  • To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization. 

  • To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession. 

noun
  • An increase in a fine or penalty due to aggravating circumstances. 

  • The picking up and loading of goods to be transported by a mover. 

  • The act or result of being uplifted. 

  • A brassiere that raises the breasts. 

  • A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building. 

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