smother

And if he smothered himself in the process, so what?

"His mother should have smothered him as a child," she said.

It was as if something or someone were trying to smother her.

The rain smothered all other sound for a space of minutes.

The only way we can control the fire is to smother it.

They would take care of the child, smothering it with love and attention.

At times, she seemed smothered by the number of her charges, too.

He smothered a smile as his eyes took in her face.

She smothered me much longer this time, until I began to pass out.

They either say nothing, or attempt to smother you in words.

For the first time in her life, Bet was smothered by love and attention.

He could use the complex House rules to smother the bill.

The horror of the situation smothered him all over again.

Another smile tried to break through and died young, smothered by fat.

Every passing moment made him feel as if he was smothering.

He went down, fighting, to be smothered within the next half minute.

A. It sounds as if you might be smothering them more than they can stand.

I smothered them each with a pillow because I'm not a good mother.

Maybe that was it; they'd been spending too much time together, and she felt smothered.

But smothered cries from those about the fire made him turn his head.

His mouth opened and sound started to come out, but I smothered it with one hand.

The only thing was to smother the matter of the car with something more immediate.

In the next instant, a second hand smothered her mouth.

Without their help, we and everything else would be smothered in biomass.

With that news, she imagined her friend smothering in the water.