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Example Sentences

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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