stifle vs kick the bucket

kick the bucket vs stifle

stifle is a noun but kick the bucket is not a noun.

stifle and kick the bucket both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stifle	Yes	No	Yes	No
kick the bucket	No	No	Yes	No

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

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

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

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

stifle (verb)	kick the bucket (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 kick the bucket

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