suffocates
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Examples
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.
My spirit is old; and some black lot awaits me On my long road. Some dream accurst, inveterate, suffocates me Still with its load. So young – yet hosts of dreadful thoughts appal me, Sick and opprest. Come! and from shadowy phantoms disenthral me, Friend.
One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
Doing the wrong new things, things that usurp what God calls us to do, is dangerous. Focus tends to let it breathe. Lack of focus generally suffocates it.
He suffocates me with kindness.