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smother
verb as in extinguish; cover, hide
Example Sentences
McDonald later accused him, facilitated by Crossley’s supported typing, of attempting to smother her to death with a pillow.
But United failed to smother their opponents in the manner of successful teams in the past.
“There is always the chance that scientists will find a slow-burning plant that will smother the chaparral,” a county fire official said hopefully.
“Gigantic, moving plumes that could smother the Pacific’s best tuna fishing grounds, the planet’s largest daily migration of life from the deep to the surface across the ocean’s twilight zone, a region that contains the most abundant vertebrate life on the planet, and is traversed by whales, sea turtles, and giant squid.”
It is in these moments that many of us promise ourselves that we will smother this difference.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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