smother in the PONS Dictionary

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Obviously, extensive and chronic sources of siltation in the area could cause sediment overload that would smother stream biota requiring clear water.
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She feels that it was his fault that she became someone different, that he smothered her.
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Others were caught in the rush of coal, and crushed to death or smothered.
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Violent, drunken, vulgar, with an unhealthy taste for all things criminal, corrupt or smothered in curry sauce.
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There's little creativity involved in these grimy tunes, smothered in layers of synthesized vocals and rapid-fire raps.
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If a magnesium fire should start, it can be smothered with cast-iron turnings or dry sand, or with other materials prepared especially for the purpose.
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Pan even hastens her husband's death by smothering the latter with a blanket while he is struggling under the effect of poison.
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The sediments that are present within the environment cause increased turbidity and may smother some organisms.
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There is a kind of piazzollization that is smothering.
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At lower temperatures (with organic fuels) produces strontium nitrite ash which can smother the flame; decomposes completely at higher temperatures (with magnesium).
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