What is another word for smothering?
218 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ smˈʌðəɹɪŋ], [ smˈʌðəɹɪŋ], [ s_m_ˈʌ_ð_ə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for smothering:- all (adjective)
- sultry (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- breathless (noun)
- choking (noun)
- dyspneal (noun)
- dyspneic (noun)
- dyspnoeal (noun)
- dyspnoeic (noun)
- repression (noun)
- killing (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Smothering:
adj.
•all (adjective) •sultry (adjective) •tight (adjective)n.
•breathless (noun) •choking (noun) •dyspneal (noun) •dyspneic (noun) •dyspnoeal (noun) •dyspnoeic (noun) •repression (noun)v.
•killing (verb)- Massacring,
- hanging,
- strangling,
- Smiting,
- Assassinating,
- asphyxiating,
- Slaughtering,
- Removing,
- executing,
- Eliminating,
- putting to sleep,
- doing in,
- Liquidating,
- icing,
- butchering,
- doing away with,
- chilling,
- purging,
- Murdering,
- putting down,
- Drowning,
- Snuffing,
- Sacrificing,
- Dispatching,
- slaying,
- Exterminating.
Other synonyms:
•Other relevant words:- throttling,
- curtain,
- issuing,
- controlling,
- veil,
- stifle,
- skirting,
- Terminating,
- cut-off,
- end,
- Fuming,
- releasing,
- Holing,
- inconveniencing,
- check,
- Damping,
- Discommoding,
- Prohibiting,
- Environing,
- circling,
- asphyxiation,
- Incommoding,
- anaesthetizing,
- die,
- Shelving,
- starvation,
- surround,
- Muzzling,
- suffocatingly,
- Burking,
- Subduing,
- retiring,
- beat out,
- suffocation,
- pall,
- repression,
- preclusion,
- concealment,
- concealing,
- overwhelming,
- dampening,
- extinguishing,
- cutting off,
- smouldering,
- retch,
- cessation,
- Squelching,
- strangulating,
- Circumventing,
- garrote,
- anesthetizing,
- prohibition,
- Quashing,
- suffocate,
- wraps,
- dying,
- Discontinuing,
- obstruction,
- Containing,
- troubling,
- smashing,
- restraint,
- asphyxiate,
- halting,
- Extending,
- halt,
- Quieting,
- stifling,
- strangulation,
- Preventing,
- iron curtain,
- besieging,
- hold back,
- smoking,
- suppress,
- Cluttering,
- forbidding,
- repressing,
- smothered,
- repress,
- blocking,
- termination,
- stopping,
- Bothering,
- Interdicting,
- withholding,
- control,
- Muddling,
- quelling,
- publishing,
- Jumbling,
- Subdual,
- suppression,
- choke,
- beleaguering,
- jamming,
- prevention,
- covering,
- stuffy,
- bamboo curtain,
- curbing,
- Weltering,
- blackout,
- Precluding,
- Obstructing,
- Suppressing,
- Muffling,
- Rummaging,
- hiding,
- quench,
- dousing,
- quell,
- cracking down on,
- Gagging,
- deadening,
- Ensconcing,
- Pickling,
- inhibiting,
- surrounding,
- Messing,
- Restraining,
- hindering,
- discontinuation,
- censorship,
- flattener,
- Ceasing,
- Dulling,
- Smotheringly,
- fencing,
- stiflingly,
- Silencing,
- crushing,
- Walling,
- clouding,
- heave,
- Checking,
- chokingly,
- interdiction,
- rounding,
- coating,
- extinction,
- strangle,
- Muting,
- encircling,
- ending,
- hush up,
- elimination,
- fixing,
- put-down,
- drown,
- crack down,
- stop,
- smother,
- surcease,
- muffle,
- tightly,
- smudgy,
- censoring,
- bordering,
- extinguish,
- disobliging,
- quenching,
- security,
- forbiddance,
- Oppressing.
Paraphrases for Smothering:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
suffocating.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
suffocation.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
strangling, stifling.
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Noun, singular or mass
Antonyms for Smothering:
Homophones for Smothering:
- squandering, saint irenaeus, sanitariness, smattering, smithereens, signet ring, semitrance.