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smotheringverbpresent participle of smother to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable airchildren should never play inside discarded appliances because they could become trapped and smother choking, stifling, strangling, suffocating garroting(or garotting), throttlingasphyxiatingdrowningcroaking(slang), destroying, dispatching, doing in, felling, slaying breathing, exhaling, expiring, inhaling, inspiringresuscitating, reviving to refrain from openly showing or utteringhe quickly smothered his inappropriate laughter at the funeral ceremony choking (back), holding back, pocketing, repressing, sinking, stifling, strangling, submerging, suppressing, swallowing controlling, governing, managingbridling, checking, curbing, quashing, quellingbottling up, containingmuffling, squelching expressing, loosing, releasing, taking out, unleashing, venting to defeat by a large marginthe soccer team smothered their first few opponents in the championships, but lost narrowly in the final round annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking(slang), snowing under, thrashing, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing(slang), whipping, whomping, whopping(or whapping), whupping sweeping, upsettingbeating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worstingcrushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcendingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingbreaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering beating the pants off, eating alive, running circles around(or running rings around), wiping the floor with(or wiping the ground with) |