Roman Reigns

I try to live in the moment. When you're in a singles match, you're in there, and the guy's on top of you, and you're in a hold, and you're being smothered: You're in the fight at all times. But when we're doing these team fights, you have a little time to take in the moment and just absorb the energy of the crowd.

American Wrestler

Fred Upton

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

American Politician

Hugh Grant

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

English Actor

Betty Wright

I've just learned that love is a very fleeting thing, so we - then we have it; we need to hold on to it but hold on to it in a gracious fashion. Not in the smothering but more so just a covering kind of love.

American Musician

Mayim Bialik

The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.

American Actress

Chris Bosh

My favorite was always smothered pork chops. Smothered pork chops. That would be my request if I ever had one, and it was pretty consistent.

American Athlete

Edith Sitwell

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

British Poet

Katie Price

I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.

English Model

Dan Jenkins

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

American Author

Leo Buscaglia

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Use 'smother' when describing situations where breath is cut off, often as a life-threatening event.

Life-threatening Context

'Smother' can imply an accidental situation, not necessarily a deliberate act.

Not Always Intentional

'Smother' suggests covering so thoroughly that the original item is nearly or completely obscured.

Extreme Covering

Using 'smother' can indicate the speaker's belief that there's too much of whatever is doing the covering.

Perceived Excess

'Smother' in a social sense often has a negative connotation, suggesting excessive, unwanted affection or care.

Negative Affection

Use 'smother' when someone's behavior reduces another's freedom or personal space.

Lack of Personal Space

'Smother' conveys strong effort to keep something like a reaction or opinion from becoming public or noticeable.

Suppressing Expression

Sometimes 'smother' suggests someone in power is restricting freedom of expression or information.

Authority or Control

 they're too coddled, they don't know what they've got, we're going to raise a generation of privileged No, I think if you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

Life at 30,000 feet PIPE...

 reside two deceitful offerings that smother the truth. These words are liars. These words must be stopped. Remove them from our language so that honesty can return to our communication. Ladies and gentlemen, if I say to you that you have been a good jury,

The case against "good"...

 The machine made this decision for us. A very important but difficult conversation might have been smothered, had Facebook been the only channel. Now, finally, these systems can also be wrong

Machine intelligence...

 once an insect becomes stuck nearby glandular hairs coil around and smother their prey the plant then releases enzymes which aid the slow digestion of its victim

These Sticky Traps Are...

 plan a is to smother the prey with the metal trap in the way that's not too successful but that huge brain helps the octopus to

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 they block the father's path at every turn as his chick gets smothered by admirers there's nothing he can do

Baby Penguin Escapes...

 they smother their prey but the slug has a trick up its sleeve it may be slow but it's well protected

Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth

Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...

Ants Devour Slug Alive!...

 blobs can sink to the seafloor acting like a blanket and smothering life at the bottom

Smother

Life-threatening Context

Not Always Intentional

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