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Meaning smother meaning

What does smother mean?

smother

— verb envelop completely smother the meat in gravy — verb (= suffocate) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor — verb (= strangle, muffle) conceal or hide smother a yawn muffle one's anger strangle a yawn — verb deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion smother fires — verb form an impenetrable cover over the butter cream smothered the cake — noun a stifling cloud of smoke — noun (= clutter) a confused multitude of things

Synonyms smother synonyms

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smother English » English

suffocate stifle choke asphyxiate strangle suppress muffle welter surround repress put out overwhelm blanket smoulder quench quell muddle mare’s nest jumble fuddle drown crush cover conceal clutter whiteout white out veil trample throttle swallow submerge subdue strew strangulate smolder sit on shroud shower scud run over quash paste overlay overgrow overdo outfire occult obstruct obscure

Topics smother topics

What do people use smother to talk about?
Person Body functions

Breathe, breath
Person Life Die

Kill
Daily life Fire

Extinguish a fire
Physical actions Arrange Put

Fill, cover

Conjugation smother conjugation

How do you conjugate smother?

smother · verb

Examples smother examples

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Movie subtitles

In Tortuga, when a woman slaps a man's face. it means she wants him to grab her. overpower her and smother her with kisses.
We are enough yet living in the field to smother up the English if any order might be thought upon.
If they don't get jammed under the brooder. and smother or drown in the drinking fountain or get coccidiosis. or peck each other to death, we may be in the chicken business yet.
I'd smother to death.
Ready to smother us to death.
This oil will smother the poison, until I can come back here, and swallow this emetic.
You'll smother her.
I'm going to pick me a choice woman and I'm going to smother her in minks and choke her with diamonds.
If it's a bird, I'll smother it.
I mean it, I will smother it.
In April, but if you smother it with pepper it's fine.
If we smother Guilala with guilalanium, he will cease absorbing energy and probably weaken.
He will smother her desire for change unless he himself is redeemed.
Smother him in onions.
Just for that I'm coming over to smother him in kisses.
Two squadrons dropping high explosives. followed by two squadrons at minimum interval. to smother the entire target area. with rockets and machine gun fire.
Don't smother her with kisses.
There'll be no complaints out of you. I'll smother them like this.
A ball? I'm going to pick me a choice woman and I'm going to smother her in minks and choke her with diamonds.
You must have the strength to smother your feelings, whatever they are.
Take it away before they smother it with fingerprints.
Don't smother me with it, man, put it round me knees.
Well, now. ready to smother our fundamental rights.
Listen, the earth could not bury me. The sea could not smother me, rage and storm though she might, the whore.
Don't smother him in pity. That would make him feel worse.
But I bet she don't smother the covers up around your neck, or fuss around with your pillow every night.
We are enough yet living in the field to smother up the English in our throngs, if any order might be thought upon.
Give room! You'll smother this woman!
All I can see is this vicious animal trying to smother me!
He'll smother that girl!
When you try to smother them, it just spreads the oil around.
I'd smother Bob and send Lorie to perdition!
With the way you talk into your chest the way you smother yourself in lime-green polyester.
Listen to me. You smother this or you're out of here in 24 hours.
They encourage religious superstitions. and with the help of the popes, priests, and rabbis. they smother all revolutionary instinct.
I'm going to wrap my hands around your neck. and smother you with kisses. Whatever they got you on, cut the dose.

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But public anger over sky-high price growth precipitated by the oil crises finally allowed central banks to tighten credit and smother inflation with massive global recessions.

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