smother a yawn.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

smother the meat in gravy.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

smother fires.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

However, friends say the pop star is determined not to "smother" Mercy with attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News] Reference

Amy, I know I am blessed to have a mother in my life, but I don't want a "smother," I want a mother!.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

Here, you two Dalton girls, don't smother that child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference

They were doing their best to smother their laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

"Might smother it that way, but I know an easier one.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Billy and endeavoring to smother his howls with kisses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

But a blueprint is unlikely to smother the simmering frustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Campus Divided By Three Words] Reference

The single-mindedness can smother self-restraint and common sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambitious to Fault] Reference

He watched Elmer lift his elbow and smother his booger with shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slime Me] Reference

Not all the forces at play are working to smother celebrity culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Many Minutes Of Infamy?] Reference

Regrettable as it is that Othello should smother his wife, there seems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

If flames are contained in a grill, close the lid to smother the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip of the Day: Be safe when grilling] Reference

And he went off, hoppity-kick, hoppity-kick, leaving the Wind to smother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference

"Your sister and the girls will never find their way through this smother.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

Lay the lot out decently, Tommy, and don't smother them in grass next time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

When the water isnt enough, they dig holes and smother the flames with dirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volunteers Rush To Aid Russian Firefighters] Reference

"Makes Denver look like a village," said Stone, laughing to smother a groan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference

The cameras captured 39 instances of mothers trying to smother their babies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery's Littlest Victims] Reference

All gazed out to sea, where, amid a smother of foam, the craft could be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference

It made Bill want to gather the man in his arms and smother him into stillness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honesty] Reference

Nevertheless they struggled on into the smother, making what headway they could.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

The sky is a wall of gray threatening to push down and smother all things beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snake Dreams] Reference

To smother a small grease fire in the kitchen you might not need to use an extinguisher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Consumer Reports Test Labs: Review of fire extinguishers] Reference

Then the whole scene went out in a smother as an avalanche of bodies descended upon him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Eataly: 50,000 square feet meticulously engineered and curated to smother us with pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [EATALY OPENS: Batali, Bastianich & Co.'s Mega-Temple Of Italian Food, Revealed (PHOTOS)] Reference

Regrettably, it's also exposed to the danger that its mother will roll over and smother him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale Of Two Hogs] Reference

The many events that had crowded themselves into the next year did not smother his prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

"We don't want to smother the elections in our embrace," said a senior administration official.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life After Arafat] Reference

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

King doesn't so much respond to the music as smother it with a luxury quilt of neoclassical dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster] Reference

This is the girl you'll take home later, date-rape, marry, divorce, smother to death with a pillow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beat of Sorrow] Reference

Isn't there a chance that this kind of blanket coverage will smother us with sadness, anger and fear?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Much, Too Soon?] Reference

I had to smother my face with a pillow to keep from waking up the whole building when he —       .    From Wordnik.com.  [Desilu, Three Cameras] Reference

His features had a pinched expression, and every now and then he caught himself trying to smother a yawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Pillows of fog smother the mountain, while bursts of rain pound what had been wonderful snow into a soggy mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountain Slide] Reference

But few have ever heard of him outside of Belgium because the point of Brussels is to smother this sort of dissent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Baldwin: Why We Have Culture Wars and the Europeans (Apparently) Do Not] Reference

They clubbed the back of our necks and pushed us down to smother us and let us die in a deep hole with hundreds of other bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Stories From Hell] Reference

In his zeal to smother the story, Robb strained the credulity of Beltway insiders with his version of the 1984 evening with Collins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senator Robb's Walk On The Wild Side] Reference

The intention is to smother an Iraq apologia in endless quotables on Gordon Brown and his emotional idiocy and general hopelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism] Reference