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Synonyms for stifle
Synonyms for stifle: dampen and repress. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for stifle
Interchangeable with stifle in this sense
Audited under stifle's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one stifle carries in that sense.
- dampenverb, in the sense "suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name stifle as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- repressrepress is a verb in the sense "suppress in order to conceal or hide"
The first group is filed under stifle's own sense. The second reaches stifle from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
Stifle your curiosity.
The true synonym
dampen
Same sentence, swapped: Dampen your curiosity.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- asphyxiate
- choke
- stimulate
Where stifle turns up in the game
stifle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where stifle is the trap
- barricadeverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is stop, in the sense "render unsuitable for passage", and stifle is on the board beside it.
Play stifle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stifle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from change at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stifle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.