smother
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Smother sections of lawn beneath layers of cardboard, then mulch over the area in winter.
From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022
The earliest reference I found in print is a recipe “To Smother Young Chickens” in Lettice Bryan’s “The Kentucky Housewife,” originally published in 1839.
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022
First he called to check in on Mary Smother, an 80-year-old who had started coming to Gordon Chapel after her church closed — only to come down with the virus.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2020
Smother your targets with largesse and you own them.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018
Smother it under a cloak and the cloak took fire; slap at a fleck of it with your palm and your hand was aflame.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing smother
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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