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Definition of the day : « smother »
- verb extinguish; cover, hide
- Verloc, whose affair the police has managed to smother so nicely, was mediocre.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- Pour it boiling on the cucumbers, and smother them as before.
- Extract from : « The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; » by Charlotte Campbell Bury
- You would kill her, smother her dead in your arms, before you would give her to—that.
- Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
- They had gone unheard and unseen, melting, as it were, in the shock and smother of the wave.
- Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad
- His eyebrows and hair were left behind in the smother of flame.
- Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
- She tried to smother a little feeling of hurt because Isobel had deserted her.
- Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott
- It needed only a few seconds to drop over the performer, to burn and smother him.
- Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Motor-boat » by Victor Appleton
- To smother the rush of words which were gathering at his lips, he raised his cup and drank.
- Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
- The fluff from the work seemed to smother Connie that morning.
- Extract from : « Sue, A Little Heroine » by L. T. Meade
- He seemed to smother the words by stooping to kiss her good-by.
- Extract from : « The Letter of the Contract » by Basil King