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smothering

We have found lemma(root) word of smothering : smother.

Definitions


[ˈsmʌðə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate
(e.g: I dreamed a stranger was trying to kill me by smothering me with a pillow)

- make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective or possessive manner towards them
(e.g: we smothered each other, and it was just not very healthy at all)

- extinguish (a fire) by covering it
(e.g: use a fire blanket to smother a chip-pan fire)

- cover someone or something entirely with
(e.g: rich orange sorbets smothered in fluffy whipped cream)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘stifling smoke’): from the base of Old English smorian ‘suffocate’


[ˈsmʌðə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a mass of something that stifles or obscures
(e.g: all this vanished in a smother of foam)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘stifling smoke’): from the base of Old English smorian ‘suffocate’




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