stifle vs pass away

pass away vs stifle

stifle is a noun but pass away is not a noun.

stifle and pass away both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stifle	Yes	No	Yes	No
pass away	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, pass away is a hypernym of stifle; that is, pass away is a word with a broader meaning than stifle:

stifle: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
pass away: 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, kick the bucket, pass, perish, pop off, snuff it.

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

stifle (verb)	pass away (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	go out of existence
suppress in order to conceal or hide
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

Difference between stifle and pass away

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