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smothered

adjective as in extinguished

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adjective as in strangled

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adjective as in suppressed

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But in September, he wrote that this was only a possibility "so long as it is not smothered by bureaucracy" and claimed Doge was "the only path to extending life beyond Earth".

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Kyren Williams caught a backfield pass from Stafford and was immediately smothered for a 10-yard loss.

The plaque says the St Thomas à Becket Anglican Church, known as simply "the English church" for many years, would have been destroyed without her - after she hid its artwork to save it from damage, smothered fires as they started.

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Rasmus Hojlund and Marcus Rashford both had efforts smothered by Lukasz Fabianski, while Bruno Fernandes lofted a header over the bar.

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Wells hit a grounder that appeared headed for center field, but Edman smothered it with a diving stop on the second-base side of the bag, holding Wells to a single that loaded the bases.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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