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synonyms for smother
- choke
- douse
- envelop
- overwhelm
- quash
- quell
- snuff
- squelch
- stifle
- strangle
- suffocate
- suppress
- surround
- asphyxiate
- collect
- compose
- conceal
- control
- cool
- cork
- heap
- inundate
- kill
- muffle
- quench
- rein
- repress
- restrain
- shower
- shroud
- throttle
- hush up
- keep back
- simmer down
- stamp out
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How to use smother in a sentence
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."
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanI would not make oath it was so, but my blood was then boiling, and I was trying to smother my passion.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio Pellico
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.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeIt endeavoured to smother sleepers like the Scandinavian hag Mara, and similarly deprived them of power to move.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. Mackenzie
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