What is another word for smothers?

Pronunciation: [smˈʌðəz] (IPA)

Smothers is a term that refers to suffocation or the act of covering or suppressing something. Synonyms for smother include clog, stifle, choke, suppress, suffocate, and blanket. These terms are often used interchangeably and are generally used to describe the act of covering or blocking something from moving or functioning smoothly. Clog refers to something that is blocked or obstructed, while stifle means to suppress or smother an action or emotion. Choke refers to the inability to breathe due to suffocation, while suppress means to restrain or keep something from being expressed. Suffocate refers to the act of depriving someone or something of air, and blanket means to cover or smother something with a blanket or similar covering.

What are the hypernyms for Smothers?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Smothers

"Uncle Arthur is kind to me, but the life smothers me.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
And this fear smothers all the energy in them.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
How true and cheering is this: "There is in each of us a primitive ideal being, whom Nature has wrought with her finest and most maternal hand, but whom man too often covers up, smothers, or corrupts."
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert

Famous quotes with Smothers

  • I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
    Ogden Nash
  • Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
    Lawrence Lessig
  • Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identity and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.
    Robert Graves
  • She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to let any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's; I hain't slid on a cellar-door for — well, it 'pears to be years; I got to go to church and sweat and sweat — I hate them ornery sermons! I can't ketch a fly in there, I can't chaw. I got to wear shoes all Sunday. The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell — everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it.
    Mark Twain

Related words: smother son, smother daughter, smothering mother, smothering father, suffocating mother, suffocating father, stop smothering me

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