Smothering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SMOTHERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate
• make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective manner towards them
• extinguish (a fire) by covering it
• suppress (a feeling or action)
• (in sport) stop the motion of (the ball or a shot)
• cover someone or something entirely with
NOUN:
• the act of smothering
• a mass of something that stifles or obscures
ADJECTIVE:
• suffocating
• causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to prevent from breathing

Words related to SMOTHERING

smother12 smothered15 smotheringly21 smothers13

Words that contain SMOTHERING

smotherings17 smotheringly21

How to use SMOTHERING in a sentence

• He still felt the sweet, warm touch of her lips, the pressure of her arms, the smothering softness of her hair.
• I had often occasion to remark that the spirit of enterprise or improvement seldom glowed with sufficient ardour to resist the smothering effect of a demand for dollars.
• He felt he hated the smothering haze that rolled in front and hid the dangers, but they must go on and trust to luck.
• About the porch it was particularly thick, smothering a seventeenth-century lamp with a contrast that was quite horrible.
• He tore off the smothering coat and rose with them, despite all they could do.
• The knowledge that he had done this thing, and that she was looking at him now as if it had never happened, filled him with a smothering sense of humiliation.
• Each smothering blast of fury was stronger and fiercer than the one before it.
• The worst symptoms were dragging down pains, so bad I sometimes thought I would go crazy and I seemed to be smothering.
• Patsy caught the young officer smothering a smile, but neither of them interrupted the silence that followed.
• Memphis was prepared against a second smothering of the lights of heaven.
• Again the smothering alkali rose and the dust cloud crawled.
• Shortly after midday the storm broke with a gale of wind and driving, smothering snow, and a temperature 30 degrees below zero.
• She loved that cold, stern face, oh, so much! and to have him smile was a pleasure that made her heart leap till she suffered a smothering pain.
• Here the mist was thick, a smothering cover so bewildering he was confused as to direction.
• He then treats the horses, cattle, and other bestial stock in the town with the same smothering, to keep them from harm throughout the year.
• She, or that strange something, escaped the fear and smothering closeness of the little house.
• When the helmet was screwed on, Paul felt a smothering sensation but it soon passed.
• But he had a vague plan for putting his snowshoes over his head like an inverted V, and hoped in that way to be kept from smothering.
• On one occasion the smothering was tried too long, and after the aggravated outburst which ensued, the doctor was called in.
• I wonder if I am ever to get out of this smothering place.
• The sun was hidden by the cloud, and as he passed a shanty Rivers saw the family eating their supper outside the door to escape the smothering heat.
• An avalanche of dark water crashed down upon her, freezing her, smothering her, crushing her.
• Water, fire and sword all having failed, they finally fixed upon smothering him in a vast cream-cake.
• I fingered the soft, white sheets almost with awe, and the pillows seemed hot and smothering.
• She had no more smothering spells, and before long she was well and strong.
• Now, with the smoke half smothering her, and Pearl a dead weight in her arms, Nan could scarcely drag her burden to the opening in the row of seats.
• At such moments the sense of suffocation, of smothering for lack of space in which to breathe, had driven him like a hunted creature out into the streets.
• He chose to join as a mere volunteer, smothering his claim till another occasion.
• In November of 1553, the storm of battle was recommenced on fields of ice, and amidst smothering tempests of snow.
• I was wondering-which would be the worse, smothering or being chewed up by a bear, when he raked the dirt off my head and I saw daylight.
• Once in a number of years the like happens with snow, and a gentle fall turns into a smothering stream of snowflakes.

Similar words containing SMOTHER without suffix ing

smother12 smothers13 smothery16 smothered15 smotherer14 smotherers15 smotherier15 smotherings17 smotheriest16 smotheriness17 smotheringly21 unsmotherable20 smotherinesses19

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