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n. - A person who stifles or suppresses.

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Usage examples (9)
  • I told him I'm not a smotherer, I'm more of a stab in the eye person.
  • But horror thwarts most of my druthers like a mother lovin' druthers smotherer.
  • He wants you to die, you smotherer of pleasure, you denier of life, you withholder of joy.
  • How dreary it is always to be cast as the smotherer of desire, the hard-faced purveyor of the word "no".
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