Smothering

What do we mean by smothering?

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

To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.

To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish

In cookery: to cook in a close dish.

To daub or smear.

To be suffocated.

To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.

(of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.

To perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.

To get in the way of a kick of the ball.

To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.

Words that are spelled similarly to smothering:
smothering, mothering, smattering, smoldering, bothering, slithering, scottering, pothering, slathering, othering, smoothening, swithering, fothering.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word smothering:
pillow, foam, blanket, grenade, affection, vegetation, blast, burning, oxygen, opponent, baby, plants, dry, defense, fire, chemical, killing, heat, body, allowing, trees, leaves, ball, killed, mother.

Words that rhyme with smothering:
wuthering, mothering, brother hung, mother hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe smothering:
accidental, homicidal, such, instant, more, wilful, physical, maternal, little, consequent, emotional, complete, slow, manly, partial, quick, gradual, much, suicidal, long, direct, possible, sudden, hot, rapid, deliberate, less, simple, yellow, possessive, cold.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective smothering:
night, gas, system, pit, diseases, seas, stillness.

Words that sound like smothering:
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