stifle vs buy the farm

buy the farm vs stifle

stifle is a noun but buy the farm is not a noun.

stifle and buy the farm both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stifle	Yes	No	Yes	No
buy the farm	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, buy the farm is a hypernym of stifle; that is, buy the farm is a word with a broader meaning than stifle:

stifle: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
buy the farm: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Other hypernyms of stifle include cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.

stifle (noun)	buy the farm (noun)
joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

stifle (verb)	buy the farm (verb)
suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity	pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
suppress in order to conceal or hide
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

Difference between stifle and buy the farm

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