Difference between Muffles and Stifle

MUFFLES vs STIFLE: NOUN

Joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
The stifle-joint.
The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under horse.
A small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.
A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
A bone disease of this region.
Disease or other affection of the stifle-bone or stifle-joint, as dislocation or fracture of the patella.

To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.
To die of suffocation.
To feel smothered etc.
Smother or suppress
Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
Conceal or hide
To smother or suffocate.
To repress, keep in or hold back.
To interrupt or cut off.

To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.

To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means.
To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench.
To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge.

To suffocate; perish by asphyxia.
To husn, muffle, muzzle, gag.
Synonyms Suffocate, Strangle, etc. See smother.
To suppress; keep from active manifestation; keep from public notice; conceal; repress; destroy: as, to stifle inquiry; to stifle a report; to stifle passion; to stifle convictions.
To stop the passage of; arrest the free action of; extinguish; deaden; quench: as, to stifle flame; to stifle sound.
To kill by impeding respiration, as by covering the mouth and nose, by introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs, or by other means; suffocate or greatly oppress by foul air or otherwise; smother.
To choke up; dam up; close.
Suppress in order to conceal or hide
Suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
Corresponds to the human knee
Be asphyxiated
Die from lack of oxygen

Reverberates, Crackles, Amplifies, Squelches, Clanks, Deafens, Mutes, Tone down, Dull, Damp, Mute, Smother, Dampen, Stifle, Deaden

Restrict, Curtail, Quash, Inhibit, Suppress, Frustrate, Thwart, Hamper, Undermine, Impede, Hinder, Knee, Muffle, Smother, Dampen

Tinging, Droning, Pattering, Caterwaul, Reverberates, Clanks, Deafens, Tone down, Dull, Damp, Mute, Smother, Dampen, Stifle, Deaden

Restrict, Curtail, Quash, Inhibit, Suppress, Frustrate, Thwart, Hamper, Undermine, Impede, Hinder, Knee, Muffle, Smother, Dampen

Placing the device on any surface, especially soft ones like clothing or soft furnishings, muffles the sound that the speaker produces.
So this signifies that the number of oven muffles for Crematory IV and V had not yet been decided upon at that time.
Although the furnaces were designed with three muffles, two to three bodies could almost always be placed in each muffle.
Furnace muffles, electronic components, chemical and food processing equipment, heat treating equipment, nuclear steam generator tubing.
Became even in the same rage when mio quickly muffles her strength, and the future.
The interior muffles road and wind noise, resulting in a very quiet ride at highway speeds.
Ashley Chambers, muffles her reaction, during the closing arguments.

Woody vainly attempts to stifle the recoiling pullstring.
This will help retain moisture and stifle weeds.
Drug Warrior Tries to Stifle Critics of Prohibition.
An agreement to stifle prosecution is against law.
We stifle within ourselves the voices of prejudice.
Those built on outdated technology can stifle both.
The former can stifle innovation and technological progress.
ANT: Recal, suppress, repress, hush, stifle, check, swallow.
It should provide guidelines but not stifle creativity.
The policies that come out of Washington actually stifle expansion and stifle job growth.