| shortened | | |
| adj. | 1. sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened | cut short.; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use" |
| ~ short | (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length.; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" |
| adj. | 2. abbreviated, shortened, truncated | cut short in duration.; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" |
| ~ short | primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration.; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months" |
| adj. | 3. shortened, telescoped | shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another.; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream" |
| ~ short | (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length.; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" |
| adj. | 4. cut, shortened | with parts removed.; "the drastically cut film" |
| ~ abridged | (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting.; "an abridged version" |
| stifle | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. knee, stifle | joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee. |
| ~ hind leg | the back limb of a quadruped. |
| ~ articulatio, joint, articulation | (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion). |
| v. (contact) | 2. muffle, repress, smother, stifle, strangle | conceal or hide.; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" |
| ~ conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, curb, subdue | to put down by force or authority.; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" |
| v. (change) | 3. dampen, stifle | smother or suppress.; "Stifle your curiosity" |
| ~ suffocate, choke | suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of.; "His job suffocated him" |
| ~ conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, curb, subdue | to put down by force or authority.; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" |
| v. (contact) | 4. asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocate | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| v. (change) | 5. asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate | be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen.; "The child suffocated under the pillow" |
| ~ buy the farm, cash in one's chips, croak, decease, die, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, expire, pop off, conk, exit, choke, go, pass | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" |
| ~ strangle | die from strangulation. |
| ~ asphyxiate, suffocate, smother | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing.; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" |
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