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Suffocate
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smother
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Smother is the third studio album by British indie rock / dream pop band Wild Beasts released on 9 May 2011 by Domino Records . It reached #17 in the UK Albums Chart . According to the band, it represents a more synthesiser -based sound than previous efforts, ...
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n. a confused multitude of things [syn: clutter , jumble , muddle , mare's nest , welter ] a stifling cloud of smoke v. envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" [syn: surround ] deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smother \Smoth"er\, v. i. To be suffocated or stifled. To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES smother the flames (= put something over them to make them stop burning ) ▪ Barry smothered the flames with a blanket. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN flame ▪ Office worker Bryan Johnson tore off his own shirt to smother ...
Usage examples of smother.
There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.
Batouch, smothered in his burnous, his large head sunk upon his chest, slumbered like a potentate relieved from cares of State.
Valyn asked anxiously as Mero pulled himself up off of the bed with a smothered oath.
I should say, in order to keep down the fat lest it overlie and smother the soul.
Arabella Radman, her radiant beauty smothered in the folds of old age as she suffered her eternally youthful husband catering to her fragile needs.
Dam mR dammit, dam reit She dropped the box and backed up against the wall, smothering the flames--but not before she burned her hands and her back.
A simple gag should smother all the screaming, and before Seriema was missed, the job would be done, and he would be gone.
One evening he went to a cottager who had a row of skeps, and bought one of them, just as it was after the man had smothered the bees.
With his lips he smothered hers, kissing her until he felt her lips soften, the eddy of her breath swirling with his.
She smothered a yawn, not inclined to leave the comfort of the bed so soon despite the hour.
The oppressive pall of fear that had smothered the people was dissolved at last.
Soft arms were flung around his neck, his sweaty, sooty face was smothered in plump and delicious kisses.
He took a handful of her hair and smothered the remainder of the sentence.
Thus the limit-age, so that the People would not be faced with a choice between an intolerable smothered existence and a virtual prohibition against new births.
When she woke to find herself smothered in dark cloth, encircled by strong arms, Elf thought he was up to yet more wickedness, but something she did not care for.