(v. t.) To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
(v. t.) To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.
(v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
(v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.
(v. i.) To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
(v. t.) Stifling smoke; thick dust.
(v. t.) A state of suppression.
Example Sentences:
(1) As attorneys who practice asylum law, we believe deeply in our nation’s obligation to provide real protection to refugees, but the Obama administration’s willful disregard of existing asylum laws and procedures – and its smothering of due process with detention and rapid deportation – is truly appalling.
(2) Brad Guzan produced a superb save to deny Ayew, rushing off his line to smother a left-foot shot from six yards out, and 33 seconds later the Swansea forward’s brother had the ball in the net at the other end.
(3) Conveniently, it is not far from the Via Algarviana , allowing us to leave the car and hike the stretch to Alte (16km), passing shuttered houses smothered in creepers in old, abandoned villages.
(4) Buffon's understudy Marchetti gets down brilliantly to smother the cross.
(5) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
(6) Later, when it was realised that pieces of aluminium and magnesium among this waste could catch fire and cause widespread contamination, inert argon gas had to be pumped in to smother potential blazes.
(7) Updated at 5.30pm BST 5.13pm BST Game and second set to Roger Federer Rewind the clocks and smother the future , the venerable Roger Federer isn't Wimbledon history yet.
(8) Our descent into Delhi was delayed because of fog, we were told, but the nicotine-coloured blanket smothering this dynamic Indian city was a malignant smog.
(9) Bayern are braced for their visitors to employ similar tactics to those that deflated Barcelona in their semi-final, a smothering defence and bite on the break game-plan that has drawn local criticism in print from Günter Netzer and Matthias Sammer.
(10) The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country.
(11) The decision by the MP for Mid Bedfordshire to become the first serving MP to take part in the show, which features famous faces performing in stunts that in the past have included being smothered in insects and eating a kangaroo's penis, could keep her from parliamentary and constituency business for a month.
(12) Hazard is sent off for kicking the ball under a ballboy attempting to smother the ball rather than return it.
(13) The forward bustled in, stealing the ball and holding off the centre-half as he attempted to wrest it back, before ripping a glorious shot from a horribly tight angle into the far top corner as Ben Foster edged out to smother.
(14) He's never quite in control, though, and his attempted lift into the net is smothered by the outrushing Ospina.
(15) Before he came to the UK, Darius trained in Poland, learning how to perform a cut-throat shave by smothering an inflated balloon in shaving foam and then removing it with a single blade.
(16) Sediment can smother seagrasses, which are the key food source of dugongs and sea turtles, and damage corals.
(17) White supremacy in America won’t let our black young children be kids, swim or receive congratulations while graduating without having the breath, light and life smothered right out of them.
(18) Liverpool had threatened only sporadically, although Kasper Schmeichel did make a decent save to smother Coutinho’s shot.
(19) The Quagga mussel ( Dreissena rostriformis bugensis ), which was found in the river Wraysbury on 1 October and can cover boat hulls and smother native mussels to death, is just one of a group of freshwater species that has been spreading westward from the Ponto-Caspian region in south-east Europe in recent years and which risk causing a “meltdown” as they invade Britain.
(20) It added: "We have long argued that stamp duty is a tax on aspiration that smothered the natural demand of the market.
Smoulder
Definition:
(v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
(v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
(v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
(n.) Smoke; smother.
(v. i.) See Smolder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine patients showed "smouldering retinitis" at a late stage.
(2) In 4 patients leukemia developed within 2-4 months from the diagnosis ('imminent leukemia'), in 13 patients leukemia or smouldering leukemia developed between 4 and 25 months after the diagnosis ('true preleukemia').
(3) Here's a photo of the remains of the flag, smouldering away.
(4) He says they dragged him about 40 metres towards a fire that was still smouldering on the street, the remains of a protesters' barricade.
(5) When Barack Obama was photographed with a very weak beer in hand at a Washington Wizards game, the phone-in lines smouldered with anger.
(6) Immune deficiency probably permits continuation of the infections, with smouldering polyclonal B-cell proliferation proceeding.
(7) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(8) In the capital, burnt-out buildings and vehicles were still smouldering in the area around the grand bazaar, where violence broke out.
(9) While ATLL usually pursues an acute or subacute (prototypic) course, patients are also seen with 'chronic' or 'smouldering' disease.
(10) "We stand against the cuts, in solidarity with all the poor, elderly, disabled and working people affected," read the message, quickly circulated among a thousand rioting students in the forecourt below, who had run out of windows to smash and gathered around smouldering fires.
(11) Indoors and outdoors human baits seated at a distance of about 3 m from smouldering esbiothrin ropes experienced no bite at all from An.
(12) Intravenous injection of methylated bovine serum albumin (mBSA) in mice with unilateral, chronic, mBSA-induced arthritis has been shown to cause a flare of smouldering arthritis without affecting the contralateral, noninflamed knee joint.
(13) In Hong Kong, Liu’s death has rekindled an anti-mainland sentiment that has been smouldering for years.
(14) Justin Bieber does age-appropriate smouldering (and monkey shots ) for the tweens and Tyra Banks "smizes".
(15) Mortality in the emergency patients was 45.5% due to the bad general condition after longstanding ileus or due to continuing smouldering fecal peritonitis after perforation.
(16) Our positions is the migrants have to be informed of their rights and it’s their decision if they want to move.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Remains of shelters that had housed migrants smoulder in the dawn sun following the clearing of an area of the Jungle.
(17) And yet there she stands, serving that well-rehearsed smouldering look on the cover of Vogue’s September issue.
(18) Both start as genuine smouldering infections turning later into neoplasms.
(19) 12.52pm BST Caught in the heat of the Centre Court microscope , Sabine Lisicki begins to smoke and smoulder.
(20) We believe that bone marrow scintigraphy may be a useful technique in the early diagnosis and follow-up of multiple myeloma, particularly in the detection of unusual forms (i.e., "smouldering" myeloma), but it remains only an "additional" technique for bone imaging.