smother
verb (used with object)
to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
half-smothered
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a word derived from
smother.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, in Illinois Carter stunned even his own supporters by turning Mayor Richard Daley's last hurrah in a national primary into a half-smothered harrumph.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his half-smothered bass voice, pounding his fist on the desk, mild Louis Denfeld told Leahy that he wanted Radford and nobody else.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Pruth, when the Russian Army almost came to grief at the hands of the Turks, Peter's empress seized a saber and fought till she was half-smothered under the debris of a bombarded earthwork.
From Time Magazine Archive
With something like a cry of agony, half-smothered by an effort, the Prince hurried from the room.
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever
Despair drove Yvonne from one extreme to the other; either she lay half-smothered with heat under an enormous eider-down, or benumbed with cold under a thin cotton blanket.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
