smother fires.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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

smother a yawn.    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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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