The difference between Contain and Stifle

When used as verbs, contain means to hold inside, whereas stifle means to interrupt or cut off.

Stifle is also noun with the meaning: a hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.

check bellow for the other definitions of Contain and Stifle

Contain as a verb (transitive):

To hold inside.
Contain as a verb (transitive):

To include as a part.
Contain as a verb (transitive):

To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

Examples:

"I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!"
Contain as a verb (mathematics, of a [[set]] etc., transitive):

To have as an element or subset.

Examples:

"A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements."

"If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning."
Contain as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Stifle as a noun:

A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
Stifle as a noun (veterinary medicine):

A bone disease of this region.

Stifle as a verb (transitive):

To interrupt or cut off.
Stifle as a verb (transitive):

To repress, keep in or hold back.

Examples:

"The army stifled the rebellion."
Stifle as a verb (transitive):

To smother or suffocate.

Examples:

"The heat was stifling the children."
Stifle as a verb (intransitive):

To feel smothered etc.

Examples:

"The heat felt stifling."
Stifle as a verb (intransitive):

To die of suffocation.

Examples:

"Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday's fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom."
Stifle as a verb (transitive):

To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.