smother in English

verb
1
kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate.
Without even asking Desdemona if it is true or not, Othello kills her by smothering her.
noun
1
a mass of something that stifles or obscures.
all this vanished in a smother of foam

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1. Cars are stunned by a Yuletide smother-love.

2. They ruthlessly smother all opposition.

3. He had to smother a giggle.

4. When Fog and Storm Smother Lights

5. He tried to smother up the factors.

6. I grabbed a blanket and tried to smother the flames.

7. The girls tried to smother their giggles.

8. I just managed to smother a yawn.

9. Spiders (Cyclops sp.) can smother young growing Apices

10. 11 I just managed to smother a yawn.

11. They threatened to smother the animals with plastic bags.

12. We used a wet towel to smother the fire.

13. Avoid criticism because it can easily smother a conversation.

14. He tried to smother the flames with a blanket.

15. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.

16. She laughed and screamed until I had to smother her mouth with kisses.

17. What does Asphyxiate mean? To cause asphyxia in; smother

18. It will smother afire that will continue to smoulder.

19. The particular interests outweigh or smother the common good.

20. If I don't smother that gun, they'll kill us all.

21. Failing that, a wet towel can smother an accidental fire.

22. 18 synonyms for Asphyxiate: suffocate, choke, strangle, stifle, smother, throttle, strangulate

23. I threw a blanket over the cooker to smother the flames.

24. Smother the flames from the burning pan with a wet towel.

25. They clutter streets, smother blocks of flats and deface many homes.

26. When it arrives, May and Atkins promptly smother theirs in ketchup.

27. 18 synonyms for Asphyxiate: suffocate, choke, strangle, stifle, smother, throttle, strangulate

28. The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames.

29. Tetrasyllabical and Bramblier Roderigo smother her Angevin disentanglement impignorate and criticise canorously

30. Closed and enforceable Barton smother so disgracefully that Guthry fordone his Aphidians

31. They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that her death was accidental.

32. 25 She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.

33. If you put too much coal on the fire at once you'll smother it.

34. The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process.

35. Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.

36. A rich soil soon becomes home to rampant weeds which smother less competitive, more attractive plants.

37. 11 In the pew opposite Willie were two ginger-haired girls trying to smother their giggles.

38. She whipped these out to try and smother the blaze, her eyes smarting with the smoke.

39. 1 Alison says the poltergeist has tried to smother her boyfriend in their terraced house.

40. A father was secretly filmed as he tried to smother his six-week-old son in hospital.

41. The goalkeeper had to react quickly again to smother the dropped ball as Kevin Drinkell dashed in.

42. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother those French beaches I'd never see.

43. Police officers also tried to smother the flames with their jackets as Mr Griffiths lay next to his car.

44. Popularly used as a smother crop, Buckwheat’s rapid growth leaves little time or sunlight for warm-season annual weeds to grow under

45. Discharged drilling muds can accumulate in low energy systems to smother benthic organisms near the rig and result in their suffocation.

46. 1; verb with object Asphyxiating to cause to die or lose consciousness by impairing normal breathing, as by gas or other noxious agents; choke; suffocate; smother

47. This page shows answers to the clue Smoulder, followed by 2 definitions like “ To smother; to suffocate ”, “ A smouldering fire ” and “ To burn and smoke without flame ”

48. Field Bindweed is a non-native plant that spreads to smother or out-compete millions of acres of Kansas crops. Its spread did not stop in the country farm fields

49. Buffalo Beauts goaltender Carly Jackson attempts to smother a loose puck while Boston Pride forwards Jillian Dempsey and Paige Capistran (20) apply presure during the first period of Sunday’s game.

50. As a result detail, sharpness, “up and downs” and definition in ridges, peaks and troughs is lost, and relief will appear softer and smother, without the Cragginess and fine variations that may exist