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Adjective smothering has 1 sense
- smothering, suffocating, suffocative - causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
Antonyms: breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic (indirect, via breathless)
Verb smother has 5 senses
- smother, surround - envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
--1 is one way to cover
Sample sentence:
The wind storms smother the area with dust and dirt
- smother, asphyxiate, 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"
--2 is one way to kill
Sample sentence:
They want to smother the prisoners
- smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress - conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
--3 is one way to suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
Sample sentences:
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- smother - form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake"
--4 is one way to cover, spread over
Sample sentence:
Dust and dirt smother the area
- smother, put out - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
--5 is one way to snuff out, extinguish
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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