Smothers

Synonyms

suffocation smothering asphyxiation suffocative suffocated strangles

Examples

The money pigs of capitalist democracy... Money has made slaves of us... Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood. Joseph Goebbels

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. Franz Kafka

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

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest. Don Novello

Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood. . . .It poisons our own values and subjects us to the service of low and base instincts. Joseph Goebbels

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say. Christopher Pike