stifle

To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.

I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.

And while her Hand the ſtreaming Blood oppos'd; / Join'd Face to Face, his Lips with hers ſhe clos'd. / Stifled with Kiſſes, a ſweet Death he dies; / She fills the Fields with undiſtinguiſh'd Cries: [...]

To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.

The heat was stifling the children.

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

The army stifled the rebellion.

I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.

An act or state of being stifled.

The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.

A bone disease of this region.