smothered 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of smotherednext
1
as in choked

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2
as in muted

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smothered

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verb

past tense of smother
1
as in strangled
to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable air children should never play inside discarded appliances because they could become trapped and smother

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2
as in stifled
to refrain from openly showing or uttering he quickly smothered his inappropriate laughter at the funeral ceremony

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3
as in whipped
to defeat by a large margin the soccer team smothered their first few opponents in the championships, but lost narrowly in the final round

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smothered
  1. muted
  2. strangled
  3. stifled
  4. whipped
  5. weak
  6. choked
  7. suppressed
  8. buried
Adjective
  • And while Nicola Coughlan, Zendaya and Kaia Gerber have all embraced the power of hair-teasing this year, the aim for this new style is less Marge Simpson, more muted.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The sleek setting includes a muted grey palette, hints of metallic, and an impressive collection of artwork by international artists.
    Shivani Vora, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of muted
Verb
  • But experts wonder if the next phase will be a new dawn for a people strangled by a brutal autocracy – or whether sectarianism will bring a different type of authoritarian rule.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Now, as the anti-regime coalition starts to disband Assad’s military, and lays out its vision for a post-Assad Syria, experts wonder if the next phase will be a new dawn for a people strangled by a brutal autocracy – or whether sectarianism will bring a different type of authoritarian rule.
    Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of strangled
Verb
  • This time around, the reflexive urge to publish was stifled.
    Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Boise State's defense stifled UNLV, allowing just one score.
    Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of stifled
Verb
  • The Franklin Fire ignited Monday night after days of extremely dangerous fire conditions when Santa Ana winds whipped across the region.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Before turning back, many of them whipped out their phones to snap a photo of the divers.
    Cedar Attanasio and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of whipped
Adjective
  • Scene-to-scene continuity is typically weak and telling.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Capasa noted that a negative third quarter impacted by weak internal demand, the slowdown of purchases from Chinese customers and overall geopolitical instability kept worsening the cautious scenario already registered in the first half of the year.
    Sandra Salibian, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of weak
Verb
  • There was a lot of love in that room, and I was all choked-up — a proud sister moment.
    Jack Irvin, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The trial over the death of Jordan Neely—which made Daniel Penny, the man who choked him, a right-wing cause célèbre—became a flash point in the debate over crime and vigilantism in big cities.
    Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of choked
Verb
  • But as Daniel Goleman writes in his book Social Intelligence, in a society that puts too much emphasis on individualism, the power of the social brain often gets suppressed and overlooked.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But Google's study, published in Nature, showed that for the first time, errors can be suppressed exponentially as a quantum computer increases in size – a breakthrough that has been pursued in the field for more than 30 years.
    Sorcha Bradley, The Week UK, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of suppressed
Verb
  • Advertisement The bodies are buried with their heads to the west in three north-south rows, but nearly all of their gravestones have sunk below the surface.
    Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The women called rescue services to say they were buried by debris for seven hours after the attack late Tuesday in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s Emergency Services said, as deadly Russian strikes on civilian areas continue in the almost three-year war.
    Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of buried
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