v. to keep from getting enough air to breathe; stifle to kill in this way; suffocate to cover; excluding air from it and causing it to smolder or die down
The grandparents smothered the child with affection.
The grandparents smothered the child with affection.
Hear it
surround; cover; muffle
open up
2 syllables
smoth-ered
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