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smother
verb as in extinguish; cover, hide
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You just have to find that yin of decency and locate the gestures and words that smother the yang of fear.
Impatiently I smother the accusing whisper of my conscience, "By the right of revolutionary ethics."
I would not make oath it was so, but my blood was then boiling, and I was trying to smother my passion.
Hamilton saw that without speedy relief his comrade must soon smother.
I choked a little over a big scare that seemed to rush up out of the bed-clothes to smother me.
It endeavoured to smother sleepers like the Scandinavian hag Mara, and similarly deprived them of power to move.
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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to smother, such as: choke, douse, envelop, overwhelm, quash, and quell.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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