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smothering

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1. smothering - Noun

2. smothering - Verb

4. smothering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Smother

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Chuck Palahniuk

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. William Bernbach

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships. Hugh Grant

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. Robert Bork

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again. Wil S. Hylton

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence? Simon Van Booy

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