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hold down
(Idiomatic) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
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  1. (Idiomatic) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
  2. (Idiomatic) To restrain; to check.
stifle
To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
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  1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
  2. To suppress or repress; hold back; check, stop, inhibit, etc.
  3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
suffocate
To be unable to breathe freely; choke; stifle; smother
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  1. To be unable to breathe freely; choke; stifle; smother
  2. To suppress the development, imagination, or creativity of; stifle:
  3. To be unable to develop properly as because of a repressive or dulling environment
suppress
To inhibit the expression of:
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  1. To inhibit the expression of:
  2. To inhibit the expression of (a gene):
  3. To restrain the growth, activity, or release of:
asphyxiate
To undergo asphyxia; suffocate.
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  1. To undergo asphyxia; suffocate.
  2. To cause asphyxia in; smother.
  3. To suffocate
choke
To fail to perform effectively because of nervous agitation or tension, especially in an athletic contest:
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  1. To fail to perform effectively because of nervous agitation or tension, especially in an athletic contest:
  2. To prevent from breathing by blocking the windpipe; suffocate; smother; stifle; often, specif., to prevent from breathing by squeezing the throat of; strangle
  3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
stifle
To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
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  1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
  2. To suppress or repress; hold back; check, stop, inhibit, etc.
  3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
suffocate
To become or feel oppressed; be stifled.
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  1. To become or feel oppressed; be stifled.
  2. To be unable to develop properly as because of a repressive or dulling environment
  3. To be unable to breathe freely; choke; stifle; smother
burke
To avoid; disregard:
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  1. To avoid; disregard:
  2. To get rid of quietly; evade or suppress, as a parliamentary bill, discussion, etc.
  3. (Obs.) To murder by suffocating so as to leave the body unmarked and fit to be sold for dissection
choke
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
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  1. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
  2. To become strained with emotion
  3. (Informal) To be unable to perform efficiently, as in a sporting event, because of tension, strong emotion, etc.
gag
To prevent or limit speech in (a legislative body)
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  1. To prevent or limit speech in (a legislative body)
  2. To experience a regurgitative spasm in the throat, as from revulsion to a food or smell or in reflexive response to an introduced object.
  3. (Mech.) To choke or stop up (a valve, etc.)
hold back
(Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
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  1. (Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
  2. (Idiomatic) to contain; stop
hush
To be or become silent or still.
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  1. To be or become silent or still.
  2. To stop making noise; be or become quiet or silent
  3. To keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of. Often used with up :
muffle
To deaden (a sound), as by wrapping
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  1. To deaden (a sound), as by wrapping
  2. To wrap or cover in order to deaden or prevent sound
  3. To repress; stifle.
quench
To cool (hot steel, etc.) suddenly by plunging into water, oil, or the like
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  1. To cool (hot steel, etc.) suddenly by plunging into water, oil, or the like
  2. To put out (a fire, for example); extinguish.
  3. To overcome; subdue; suppress
repress
To control so strictly or severely as to prevent the natural development or expression of
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  1. To control so strictly or severely as to prevent the natural development or expression of
  2. To hold back or prevent by an act of volition:
  3. To put down or subdue by force:
squelch
(Archaic) To crush by trampling.
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  1. (Archaic) To crush by trampling.
  2. To produce a splashing, squishing, or sucking sound, as when walking through ooze.
  3. To suppress or silence completely and with a crushing effect
stifle
To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
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  1. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
  2. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
  3. To suppress or repress; hold back; check, stop, inhibit, etc.
strangle
To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.
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  1. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.
  2. To kill by squeezing the throat as with the hands, a noose, etc., so as to shut off the breath; throttle; choke
  3. To suppress, repress, or stifle:
suppress
To put down by force; subdue; quell; crush
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  1. To put down by force; subdue; quell; crush
  2. To curtail or inhibit the activity of something, such as the immune system or a gene.
  3. To restrain the growth, activity, or release of:
throttle
To lessen the speed of (an engine, vehicle, etc.) by this or similar means; slow (down)
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  1. To lessen the speed of (an engine, vehicle, etc.) by this or similar means; slow (down)
  2. To suppress:
  3. To stop the utterance or action of; censor or suppress
Find another word for smother. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for smother, like: hold down, stifle, suffocate, suppress, choke, extinguish, asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocate and burke.

Sentence Examples

  • All hints of hesitation left the young girl in the wake of the smother of love that enveloped her.

  • Cynthia, who'd followed the men to the door, was the first to smother the young girl in hugs and kisses, and an ample dose of tears with the others joining in with equal enthusiasm.

  • In English th represents both the unvoiced sound J as in thin, &c., and the voiced sound 5, which is found initially only in pronominal words like this, that, there, then, those, is commonest medially as in father, bother, smother, either, and is found also finally in words like with (the preposition), both.

  • In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses.

  • On the plus side, many think that Bad Santa, and especially Thornton, displays a side of Christmas that some don't want to admit to: the greedy, commercialized version that often seems to smother the more delicate meaning.

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