Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Smother"

A: Literally, extinguishing a fire by covering it with something solid like sand. As a metaphor, caring for someone too much or in a way they see as oppressive.

A: To cover and suffocate

A: It means to stifle or to suffocate (make you go airless,incapable of breathing)

A: When you suffocate someone, whether that's emotionally or physically.

A: It has 3 meanings:
1) to kill someone by covering their nose and mouth
2) to cover someone or something
3) to be overly protective of someone someone and make them feel trapped or uncomfortable

A: He smothered his girlfriend In love.
The man was smothered in mud.

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He tried to smother her with a pillow

She smothered the fire with a blanket

The mother often smothers her baby with kisses

Smother-love when a mother or father is over protective of their child

A: His mother smothered him with love.
The dog smothered itself in mud.
The boy smothered peanut butter on the wall.

A: his mom smothers her child

A: They are both ways to suffocate someone.

To smother someone is to block their mouth with an object (such as a pillow).

To strangle someone is to squeeze their neck hard enough that air cannot pass through their throat.

A: The three have very similar meanings. I'll try and break them down.

Smother:
1. To smother someone (literally) means to kill them by covering their nose and mouth, not letting them breathe, causing them to suffocate.
2. Expression - To overwhelm someone (could also be with good intentions) so that they feel annoyed and want to be free from you for a while. Example, if your boyfriend keeps talking to you all the time and not giving you personal space, even though they want to be nice to you and help you, you could say they are smothering you.

Suffocate:
1. Literal - to die due to lack of oxygen.
2. Literal - to cause someone else to die due to lack of oxygen.
3. Expression - similar to above, but usually without the positive intentions.

Stifle
1. Literal - make someone unable to breathe properly
2. Literal - to stop a laugh/cough/giggle halfway or before it starts. E.g. She stifled a giggle.
3. Expression - based on meaning 2, i.e. To stop something halfway or before it starts. E.g. The government stifled protests against the lockdown.

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A: We use them with different expressions: he smothered me with kisses. (Covered with kisses) He smothered the man with a pillow. ( he covered his face with a pillow so couldn't breathe and killed him) she stifled a yawn (suppress a yawn) she tried to stifle her laughter (control her laughing)..

A: Don't emphasize too much on the "smothe'red' it's more like "smotherd" and "hookd"

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