Dictionary Entry

smothered

To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.

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Common Phrases

. smotheredunder smotheredsmothered almost

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Poetry examples for “smothered”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

I see the driver of Alix and the owner smothered in a
fury of handshakes, a mob of caresses. I see the

In the _Gull's Horn-Book_ Dekker says that "much new Satin was there
dampned by being smothered to death in darkness."

Ignorant, soul-less, rich,
Smothered in fumes of pitch?

And then I was sent off to South Wei,
smothered in laurel groves,
And you to the north of Raku-hoku,

But the groans of his wild unrest,
Though smothered and half suppressed,
Are heard, and he is not dead.

To see the mores and fields and meadows smile
Sometimes with cowslaps smothered - then all white
With daiseys - then the summer's splendid sight

I brought my daughter, RELIGION, on earth:
She smothered Reason's babes in their birth;
But dreaded their mother's eye severe,--

'And Passion's slave, Distrust, in ashes cold.
Smothered awhile, but could not quench the flame,'--
Till Love, that grows by disappointment bold,

Best die. Then if there 's any fault, fault too
Dies, smothered up. Poor gray old little Laud
May dream his dream out, of a perfect Church,

Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.