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• How many frowardnesses of ours does he smother?From the entry frowardnesses
• This calamity morphed into a mud flow kilometers long that smothered a village.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry mud flow
• “The first one had her throat cut and the second one was smothered by a pillow.2017 November, Neil Port, The Enemy Within, Newcastle, Australia, pages 19, 284, 407. From the entry šâh
• Dafydd rides alongside, smothered in his travelling cloak with a baggy cat-fur hat on his head.2015, Toby Clements, Winter Pilgrims, →ISBN, page 329. From the entry cat-fur
• This newspaper must not become a platform for the overweening to smother the opinions of the underweening.2011, Ellen B. Holzman, Edmund X. DeJesus, Lunch Reads Volume 3: Two Mystery Short Stories, →ISBN. From the entry underweening
• A gossamer blanket of coaldust floated down like a dirty blessing and gently smothered the traffic.1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 2, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 83. From the entry gossamer
• If you aren't interested in reading about schoolgirl pins, face-sitting, smothering then please don't read this.1997, cactus...@mailmasher.com, “REPOST: My Friend Tanya (ff,nc,smothering,face-sitting,schoolgirl pins)”, in alt.sex.fetish.wrestling…. From the entry schoolgirl pin
• The sercons and Socially Conscious types smothered them in significant issues and realistic views.1961 November-December, John Koning, “The Withdrawl”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 25. From the entry sercon
• Firefoam is a fire smothering, fire extinguishing foam which covers all burning objects like a blanket.1920, R. B. Foster, J.L. Newman, Petroleum Magazine, page 61. From the entry foamite
• The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror.1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101. From the entry eyeshot
• Grace's artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert's pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay Weepy Memoir Of A Snail Crawls through a Gauntlet of Misery”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry woebegone
• Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club. From the entry puncture
• They serve them with mashed potatoes smothered in brown gravy.2016, Larysa Plawan Levycky, chapter XIV, in Destiny, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry kotleta
• A bipartisan omerta now smothers the issue.2006 October 27, Ross K. Baker, “Guns—the dead issue”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN…. From the entry omertà
• Leda laughed and smothered her with kisses.1983, Molly Keane, “Bedtime”, in Time After Time, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1984, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry shutty uppy
• Write out a conversation of "smothered thoughts." Then "unsmother" them.1972, Dalton H. McBee, Writer’s Journal: Explorations, page 12. From the entry unsmother
• The room is small, the walls smothered with fluffy pink and blue towels, the floor ankle deep with more pink fluffery.1969, Robert Hunter, Erebus, page 179. From the entry fluffery
• As someone who would gladly die smothered in Daniel Dae Kim's beefy mommy milkers, the desexualization of Asian men completely truly befuddles me.[2021 September 9, Jennifer Li, “A Japanese Man Was Hollywood's First Sex Symbol So Stop Emasculating Our Asian Leading Men”, in…. From the entry mommy milker
• Anthony takes his delicious cornbread to the next level by grilling it and then smothering it in hot sauce, maple syrup and green onions.2013 May 26, Bonnie Stern, “Bonnie Stern: South-watering recipes from Anthony Rose”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network…. From the entry cornbread
• Bob took it home to their little apartment, and Jayne nearly smothered the little tree in blinking lights and ornaments and garlands and tinsel.2010, Delilah Scott, Emma Troy, “’Tis Better to Give … Or Why Beauty is in the Eye of the Gift Giver”, in The Upside-down Christmas Tree…. From the entry Charlie Brown Christmas tree
• That Chicago would swallow the midwestern sea, smother it in concrete, or that the lake wielded enough strength to outpolitick even Mayor Richard J.2004, Susan Power, Roofwalker, page 190. From the entry outpolitick
• Bursting the bubble of a perfectly puffed tortilla smothered in chile con queso is the moment where anticipation meets realization in the Tex-Mex experience.2003, David Baird, Edie Jarolim, Don Laine, Barb Laine, Eric Peterson, Neil E. Schlecht, Texas (Frommer’s), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry chile con queso
• Louis beef ribs ($5.96 per wedge, $10.95 per slab), the mushroom smothered, corn-flaky chicken fried steak sandwich ($6.95) or the not-really-that-dry turkey burgers ($5.95).1991 March 31, Daniel Young, “[It’s Dining for Dollars] Under $15”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., City Lights section, page 19, column 5. From the entry corn-flaky
• He laid words of gentle sympathy before them, and smothered his own misery behind the face of a reporter of the New York Eclipse.1900 September, Stephen Crane, “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen”, in Wounds in the Rain: War Stories, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott]…. From the entry condole
• It was not merely unconsciousness, it was as if the mind were being smothered by some malign force, a pnigalion, throttling restfulness into a state of paralysis.2022, Lucas Lex DeJong, Unmapped Darkness: The Journals of the Red Raider. From the entry pnigalion
• This New Orleans classic takes the nutritious yellow-peeled fruit, drowns it in butter, smothers it with sugar, douses it with rum, and sets it on fire.2014, David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding, Cook This, Not That! Skinny Comfort Foods, New York, N.Y.: Galvanized Books, →ISBN. From the entry peeled
• For sale in every underpass in the nation, zapiekanki is essentially a sliced baguette covered with mushrooms and melted cheese, smothered with tomato ketchup, and eaten while walking.2008, Sco, “An A–Z of Dishes”, in Kraków, 2nd edition, Singapore: Berlitz Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, “Eating Out” section, page 99. From the entry zapiekanki
• Since the victory of gadgetry is "inevitable," you might as well come along quietly and let us smother you in speed and convenience, says the digital mafia.2000, Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century, page 432. From the entry mafia
• Rounding out the list is Schweinsfüße, or ham hocks, which are at their best when crisply fried and smothered in sauerkraut or Apfelrotkohl (a sort of applesaucey-kraut mess).1995, Berkeley students in cooperation with the Associated Students of the University of California, Germany & Austria on the Loose, 1995…. From the entry applesaucey
• He had no intention of enduring this smothering by overkindness any longer than it took him to figure out how to run away, and where to run to.1959, George O. Smith, The Fourth “R”, Dell, published 1979, Chapter , p. 37. From the entry overkindness
• A mile or so further on is the intermediate station of Ryhall, smothered with primroses in the season, and at all times a veritable flower garden.1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283. From the entry primrose

Meaning of smother

1. verb To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
2. verb To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
3. verb To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish.

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How do you use smother in a sentence?

Smother is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He smothered her by pressing his hand over her mouth.”

What is a short sentence with smother?

“beefsteak smothered with onions”

What does smother mean?

Smother means to suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.