Definition of "smothers" []

• Plural form of smother. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of smother. (verb)

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• "Its courtyard is a sculpture garden, where the soothing burble of a fountain smothers the din of the Santa Monica Freeway."
• "(And it's perfectly obvious, rhetorically, that the Sebald and Bolano titles are intended here as * representative* of the small proportion of genuinely "good," interesting, or significant books that the corporate publishing monolith does indeed manage to put out while the system of which it is an expression smothers a more comprehensive development of good, interesting, and significant books.)"
• "That pushes the burden onto others and unintentionally smothers small entrepreneurs."