Word Finder - smothering

definition

To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.

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To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.

example

to smother a fire with ashes

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To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish

example

The committee's report was smothered.

synonyms

• conceal
• cover up
• hide
• stifle

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In cookery: to cook in a close dish.

example

beefsteak smothered with onions

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To daub or smear.

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To be suffocated.

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To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.

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(of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.

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To perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.

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To get in the way of a kick of the ball.

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To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.

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The act by which someone or something is smothered.

After smothering a yawn, she asked, "Did you send me that money?"

But you're smothering me.

Betsy was seated at the table, forking sausage onto her plate and smothering pancakes in maple syrup.

It looked innocent enough, and the children were instantly smothering him with love and kisses.

While smothering the meat with thick sauce isn't recommended, typical ingredients in barbeques can yield excellent results.

I left because he's a smothering mother hen.

However, he had died from respiratory failure due to accidental smothering and traumatic asphyxia.

The defense was smothering, and even after Wolves Ty Shaw went to the free throw line, they were still scoreless.

With her empty hand she drew Antonia close, raising the liquid into the air and then smothering her visitor's face.

This attitude of smothering kids in cotton wool is just becoming foolish.

Fred O'Connor was off to the post office, but before leaving, he ceremoniously presented Martha with thirty dollars and a smothering hug.

With her empty hand she drew Antonia close, raising the liquid into the air and then smothering her visitor 's face.

She could move her head to one side or the other causing a risk of smothering.

Can be an equal partner in her life without either person smothering.

Your challenge will be keeping your emotional nature from smothering your natural fire and passion for life.

Keeping the computer in a common area of the house such as in a den or kitchen, can help you monitor their Internet time without hovering and smothering.

There was a fine line between protecting and smothering, though.

On one occasion he trapped a number of his enemies, the Berber chiefs of the Ronda, into visiting him, and got rid of them by smothering them in the hot room of a bath.