Associations to the word «Smothering»

Wiktionary

SMOTHERING, verb. Present participle of smother
SMOTHERING, noun. The act by which someone or something is smothered.

Dictionary definition

SMOTHERING, adjective. Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne