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Smothering

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Adjective

1. smothering, suffocating, suffocative

causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat

Example Sentences:
'the choking June dust'
'the smothering soft voices'
'smothering heat'
'the room was suffocating--hot and airless'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Smothering

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verb
1. 
to suffocate or stifle by cutting off or being cut off from the air
2. (transitive)
to surround (with) or envelop (in)
he smothered her with love
3. (transitive)
to extinguish (a fire) by covering so as to cut it off from the air
4. 
to be or cause to be suppressed or stifled
smother a giggle
5. (transitive)
to cook or serve (food) thickly covered with sauce, etc
noun
6. 
anything, such as a cloud of smoke, that stifles
7. 
a profusion or turmoil
8. archaic
a state of smouldering or a smouldering fire

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Smothering

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verb transitive
1. 
a. 
to keep from getting enough air to breathe; stifle
b. 
to kill in this way; suffocate
2. 
to cover (a fire), excluding air from it and causing it to smolder or die down
3. 
to cover over thickly
liver smothered in onions
4. 
to hide or suppress by or as by covering; stifle
to smother a yawn
verb intransitive
5. 
a. 
to be kept from getting enough air to breathe
b. 
to die in this way; be suffocated
6. 
to be hidden, stifled, or suppressed
noun
7. 
dense, suffocating smoke or any thick cloud of dust, steam, fog, etc.
8. 
a confused turmoil; welter
9.  Archaic
a smoldering fire
10.  Archaic
a smoldering state or condition

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Smothering

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v. smoth·ered, smoth·er·ing, smoth·ers
v.tr.
1.
a. To suffocate (another).
b. To deprive (a fire) of the oxygen necessary for combustion.
2. To conceal, suppress, or hide: Management smothered the true facts of the case. We smothered our indignation and pressed onward.
3. To cover thickly: smother chicken in sauce.
4. To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone): The grandparents smothered the child with affection.
v.intr.
1.
a. To suffocate.
b. To be extinguished.
2. To be concealed or suppressed.
3. To be surfeited with an emotion.
n.
Something, such as a dense cloud of smoke or dust, that smothers or tends to smother.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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