Difference between Stifle and Deprive

STIFLE vs DEPRIVE: NOUN

A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
A bone disease of this region.
A small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.
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.
Disease or other affection of the stifle-bone or stifle-joint, as dislocation or fracture of the patella.
Joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
The stifle-joint.

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

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

To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge.
To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench.
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 take something away from.
To keep from possessing or enjoying; deny.
To remove from office.
To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.

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
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.
Synonyms Suffocate, Strangle, etc. See smother.
To husn, muffle, muzzle, gag.
To stop the passage of; arrest the free action of; extinguish; deaden; quench: as, to stifle flame; to stifle sound.
To suffocate; perish by asphyxia.

To take away; end; injure or destroy.
To divest; strip; bereave: as, to deprive one of pain, of sight, of property, of children, etc.
To divest of office; degrade. See deprivation, 3.
To hinder from possessing or enjoying; debar; withhold.
Synonyms To dispossess, strip, rob, despoil.

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

Render, Withhold, Curtail, Exclude, Rob, Stifle, Lose, Deny, Frustrate, Starve, Usurp, Strip, Divest, Dispossess, Impoverish

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

Preclude, Eliminate, Render, Withhold, Curtail, Exclude, Stifle, Lose, Deny, Frustrate, Starve, Usurp, Strip, Dispossess, Impoverish

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.