smother
Example Sentences
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The Broncos won, 19-3, but both teams were smothering on defense while failing to establish anything close to an offensive rhythm.
From Los Angeles Times
Mud had smothered a koi pond on the woman’s property, likely killing the fish, but two of four turtles were found alive.
From Los Angeles Times
Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.
From Los Angeles Times
The challenge for policymakers, then, is to resist the temptation to smother AI with fear.
Then she buried her head under a pillow, from which some sort of unidentifiable, repetitive, smothered sound—weeping? sneezing? giggling?—could be heard.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
