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What is another word for
smothering
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Verb
Present participle for to refrain from openly expressing or displaying
Present participle for to comprehensively defeat
Present participle for to extinguish (a fire) by covering it
Present participle for to kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate
Present participle for cover someone or something entirely with
Present participle for to make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective manner towards them
Present participle for to suffocate a person's space as if to coerce them to do something
Present participle for to put a damper on one's mood or enthusiasm
Present participle for to be stacked or loaded with
Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force
Present participle for to criticize (someone or something) harshly
Present participle for to take the life of (someone)
Present participle for bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on
Noun
The action of inhibiting a process
The crime of killing by strangling
The action of suppressing something such as an activity or publication
Adjective
Significantly high in temperature
Constructed so as to prevent the passage of water, air, etc.
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Present participle for to refrain from openly expressing or displaying
stifling
repressing
strangling
suppressing
muffling
restraining
concealing
swallowing
choking
gagging
holding back
suffocating
choking back
containing
hiding
pocketing
sinking
submerging
extinguishing
snuffing
biting back
checking
collecting
composing
controlling
cooling
corking
fighting back
heaping
holding in
keeping back
killing
oppressing
overpowering
quashing
quelling
quenching
reining
restricting
showering
shrouding
squelching
bottling up
buttoning up
corking up
putting out
hushing up
keeping in check
simmering down
keeping the lid on
curbing
silencing
subduing
inhibiting
deadening
reining in
muting
dampening
bridling
reducing
keeping under control
damping down
constraining
moderating
withholding
quietening
stilling
muzzling
diminishing
lessening
toning down
softening
limiting
hushing
hindering
squashing
dulling
regulating
hampering
stopping
masking
covering up
garrotting
decreasing
impeding
quieting
dousing
damping
overcoming
preventing
frustrating
keeping a lid on
governing
blanketing
crushing
throttling
mastering
snuffing out
soothing
blocking
asphyxiating
putting an end to
allaying
destroying
abating
assuaging
taming
mitigating
stamping out
retarding
covering
obstructing
holding
calming
pulling in
keeping a tight rein on
cushioning
relieving
thwarting
alleviating
settling
sitting on
arresting
lowering
veiling
tempering
holding down
easing
tranquillizing
UK
tranquilizing
US
benumbing
shushing
deterring
keeping secret
burking
drowning
gulping back
slowing down
shutting up
blunting
blacking out
strangulating
nipping in the bud
keeping in
taking the edge off
numbing
putting the lid on
palliating
foiling
cloaking
discouraging
lulling
obscuring
clogging
keeping
measuring
annihilating
stultifying
censoring
adjusting
shackling
fettering
appeasing
halting
lightening
interfering with
trammelling
trammeling
dampening down
curtailing
banning
quelching
bitting
putting the brakes on
hog-tying
tying up
keeping dark
putting an stop to
getting rid of
putting a brake on
blotting out
sweeping something under the carpet
stemming the flow of
sweeping under the rug
sweeping something under the rug
sweeping under the carpet
obliterating
mollifying
satisfying
weakening
reining back
ruining
wrecking
eradicating
abolishing
paralysing
UK
garotting
barring
depressing
disguising
dumbing
cauterizing
US
screening
enshrouding
anaesthetizing
UK
curtaining
mellowing
ruling
placating
holding in check
stemming
stopping up
baulking
UK
handicapping
redacting
paralyzing
US
anesthetizing
US
belying
fulfilling
staying
stalling
denying
slowing
putting a damper on
cauterising
UK
throwing cold water on
confining
leashing
manacling
hobbling
holding up
occulting
prohibiting
freezing
moistening
keeping in line
putting down
balking
US
interdicting
debarring
shading
putting a lid on
relaxing
wiping out
keeping within bounds
outlawing
pouring cold water on
pacifying
keeping hidden
delimiting
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
cracking down
keeping quiet about
shutting down
keeping lid on
decreasing the volume
bringing to screeching halt
conquering
buffering
absorbing
gulping
fighting
plugging
whitewashing
burying
slaking
re-collecting
satiating
sating
capping
monitoring
deflating
correcting
holding off
cornering
inspecting
recovering
rallying
marring
licking
shutting in
gratifying
sitting down on
blowing out
slapping down
gaining control over
putting half nelson on
gaining mastery over
meeting
indulging
delaying
spoiling
setting limits on
imposing limits on
quietening down
cracking down on
clamping down on
piping down
putting damper on
keeping it down
turning down
camouflaging
eliminating
stubbing out
detecting
pausing
neutralizing
US
harshing
cramping
putting a gag on
catching
cutting short
terminating
interrupting
helping
diluting
attenuating
modifying
treading on
scotching
flattening
stamping on
censuring
trampling
gorging
glutting
contenting
bottlenecking
counteracting
staunching
lenifying
keeping a rein on
enveloping
impairing
repulsing
checkmating
braking
neutralising
UK
rebuffing
circumventing
messing up
surfeiting
filling
sweetening
turning out
no-platforming
secreting
caching
short-circuiting
stymieing
dissuading
encumbering
handcuffing
embarrassing
drawing up
gridlocking
internalising
UK
internalizing
US
bottling
locking
chastening
tongue-tying
shying
stumbling
demurring
forbidding
doing on the sly
stopping something being overheard
boarding up
bushing up
vitiating
crippling
negating
preempting
slackening pace
fetching up
standing in the way of
playing for time
pulling up
bringing to a standstill
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
stunning
gassing
stupefying
incapacitating
doping
unnerving
depriving
tiring
KO'ing
chloroforming
etherizing
injuring
consuming
exhausting
dimming
harnessing
making nice
averting
warding
tabooing
enjoining
sandbagging
fazing
keeping inside
jamming up
taking the sting out
putting a stop to
pouring oil on
straitening
knocking out
laying out
putting to sleep
putting out of order
banking
keeping under wraps
gaoling
UK
circumscribing
detaining
impounding
directing
guiding
hogtying
hogtieing
imprisoning
jailing
US
arranging
binding up
taping up
binding over
throwing a spanner in the works of
hanging up
putting on brakes
sealing somebody's lips
putting away
having on a tight leash
keeping down
bringing under control
hemming in
pulling back
tying down
pinning down
locking up
boxing up
ordering
organizing
US
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
erasing
chillin
chilling
stonewalling
heaping up
disciplining
expunging
ending
dowsing
effacing
proscribing
pegging
exterminating
planning
framing
becalming
constructing
designing
salving
balancing
lullabying
papering over
extirpating
liquidating
decimating
dismantling
demolishing
shattering
destructing
razing
scrubbing
entrammelling
icing
abstaining
tying
refraining
cooking
entrammeling
deleting
dashing
constipating
torpedoing
stagnating
spiking
concocting
shaping
forming
keeping under your hat
drawing a veil over
keeping silent about
putting a limit on
cooling off
cutting back
boxing in
cooling down
sending up
making up
putting together
reconciling
mapping out
easing up
tuning down
organising
UK
setting out
disposing
comforting
balming
working out
marshaling
US
slackening
modulating
consoling
resolving
solacing
letting up
marshalling
UK
clamping down
clamming up
drying up
knocking down
clouding
keeping tight rein on
holding it down
obfuscating
battening
eclipsing
darkening
canceling out
rendering useless
cancelling out
cleaning up
passing out
crosses out
making dark
sweeping away
rubbing out
keeling over
cutting off
rooting out
hamstringing
forestalling
cumbering
precluding
shutting out
baffling
setting back
derailing
getting in the way
crimping
opposing
borking
suspending
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
slowing up
disallowing
interfering
disrupting
getting in the way of
excluding
staving off
putting off
ruling out
warding off
binding
cramping one's style
avoiding
obviating
discontinuing
vetoing
heading off
forfending
deferring
shutting off
postponing
embargoing
shelving
nullifying
scuppering
intercepting
criminalizing
US
making illegal
bogging down
criminalising
UK
countering
defeating
decelerating
remitting
ceasing
entangling
fending off
forbearing
resisting
damming
talking out of
defending against
dragging one's feet
putting the kibosh on
closing off
choking off
steering clear of
stopping oneself
warning
inconveniencing
chaining
proroguing
fastening
desisting
diverting
disadvantaging
forgoing
upsetting
crabbing
disadvising
burdening
eschewing
weighing down
refusing
closing
deflecting
jamming
stumping
evading
abjuring
estopping
retardating
intermitting
turning aside
quitting
fouling up
putting back
making late
turning off
holding over
taking down
giving a hard time
giving up
placing an embargo on
breaking off
frightening
constricting
waiving
sabotaging
retaining
disturbing
bothering
snookering
deprecating
incommoding
stunting
pigeonholing
discommoding
unsettling
overturning
disheartening
cuffing
poking
scaring
scaring off
keeping waiting
crashing
unrailing
putting paid to
contravening
hesitating
forswearing
circumnavigating
beating
barricading
discomfiting
rejecting
stoppering
mothballing
blackballing
miring
closing out
disqualifying
occluding
stuffing
nixing
laying off
keeping hold of
holding off on
holding captive
skirting
sidestepping
escaping
loitering
bringing up
putting on hold
blocking up
blockading
clogging up
closing up
banishing
boycotting
shunning
putting on ice
saddling with
forsaking
putting on back burner
declaring illegal
tying someone's hands
congesting
bunging up
outwitting
doing for
screwing up
plugging up
putting at a disadvantage
backing off
giving the run around
leaving off
resisting the temptation to
placing at a disadvantage
jacking in
fighting shy of
swearing off
giving a wide berth to
throwing a spanner in the works
passing up
straitjacketing
dissuading from
getting out of
getting around
protracting
overloading
debilitating
bypassing
gimping
clotting
prolonging
adjourning
preventing from making progress
rattling
causing to wait
causing to stay
bringing to a close
sidelining
charging
enmeshing
ensnaring
capturing
netting
disconcerting
tiing one's hands
forefending
condemning
getting bogged down
snagging
gripping
clamping
clasping
objecting
clipping someone's wings
dragging feet
juking
putting the stopper on
taking wind out of
ditching
disappointing
gumming up
pre-empting
saving
letting
fixing
rescheduling
tabling
picking off
entrapping
putting on the shelf
refusing to pay
anticipating
keeping off
staving
keeping at bay
putting out of commission
giving disadvantage
taking out
making difficult
blacking
putting straitjacket on
tethering
putting a crimp in
taking out of play
putting the brakes on
throwing monkey wrench in
puzzling
putting a straitjacket on
forbidding to
mystifying
confounding
renouncing
cutting down on
cooping up
acting like a wet blanket
confronting
respiting
lagging
dawdling
bogging
loafing
downing
faltering
flagging
nonplussing
placing injunction on
placing an injunction on
illegalizing
passing by
closing down
officially forbidding
declaring ineligible
icing out
cursing
making it impossible for
making it impracticable for
making impossible
putting chill on
putting a lock on
zinging
putting a stopper in
passing on
banjaxing
flummoxing
standing over
sealing
caulking
setting
embogging
reefing
qualifying
procrastinating
dithering
quibbling
prevaricating
tarrying
standing
fencing
equivocating
annulling
devitalizing
sapping
making impracticable
dead-ending
pinioning
gyving
enfettering
enchaining
filling up
blocking out
lousing up
excepting
upsetting the applecart
rendering null and void
dashing one's hope
wronging
putting off the evil day
putting off the evil hour
putting on the back burner
continuing
taking a rain check on
carrying over
holding in abeyance
putting in abeyance
doing later
putting in cold storage
putting over
laying on the table
finishing
doing without
dispensing with
dropping
kicking
packing
stanching
choking up
ostracizing
US
chaining up
clapping
securing
cutting down
letting down flaps
winding down
losing steam
anchoring it
losing speed
hitting the brakes
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
stopping in your tracks
immobilizing
US
immobilising
UK
hanging fire
shielding
leaving alone
petering out
buying time
not moving
standing off
ostracising
UK
exiling
overriding
blocking off
bunging
complicating
treating harshly
sitting out
not touching
going on the wagon
avoiding doing
taking the pledge
taking the cure
having nothing to do with
passing
not doing
meddling
intruding
reserving
telling against
treating unfavourably
inflicting a handicap on
doing a disservice to
putting in an unfavourable position
treating unfairly
giving a disadvantage to
avoiding the issue
taking one's time
monkeying with
putting in irons
clapping in irons
coming to a standstill
beating around the bush
freezing out
throwing a monkey wrench into
prying
putting in chains
counting out
intimidating
daunting
intervening
affecting
intermeddling
shutting out of
discountenancing
interloping
influencing
interceding
obtruding
encroaching
snooping
nosing
messing
tampering
demoralizing
US
cautioning
sidetracking
butting in
confusing
declaring taboo
shaking
disfavouring
disfavoring
indisposing
flurrying
worrying
distracting
disquieting
discomposing
perturbing
concerning
distempering
alarming
hagriding
unhinging
exercising
undoing
agitating
frazzling
distressing
dismaying
alaruming
ailing
discomforting
fussing
refusing to give
holding on to
keeping yourself
holding out
deducting
failing to disclose
stopping yourself
keeping under one's hat
holding out on
dummying up
keeping to oneself
foregoing
intermediating
making
interposing
conflicting
troubling
saying no
disinclining
declining
disorganizing
dislocating
disordering
deranging
making nervous
demoralising
UK
making anxious
exhorting
counseling
US
pricking
dehorting
remonstrating
counselling
UK
expostulating
belaying
omitting
putting the chill on
giving the thumbs down to
giving the red light to
fooling with
mucking around
stepping in
mixing in
mucking about
horning in
barging in
getting involved
restraining oneself
going easy
sacrificing
restraining yourself
withholding from
abstaining from
declining to
refraining from
giving over
keeping from
making worried
weirding out
freaking out
advisingagainst
urging against
cautioning against
warning off
persuading against
poking your nose in
poking nose in
sticking your oar in
putting your two cents in
sticking your nose in
chickening out
arguing out of
expostulating against
urging not to
persuading not to
advising not to
leaning on
throwing off
throwing a wet blanket on
crying out against
steering clear
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“Maybe trying to
smother
your feelings right now is not the healthiest thing for you.”
Verb
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Present participle for to comprehensively defeat
thrashing
trouncing
routing
clobbering
pasting
drubbing
whipping
annihilating
creaming
wallopping
walloping
flattening
shellacking
burying
skunking
whomping
smoking
whupping
whopping
whapping
dusting
bombing
trimming
tromping
skinning
waxing
snowing under
blowing away
hammering
defeating
beating
licking
crushing
wiping the floor with
overwhelming
besting
worsting
destroying
pounding
making mincemeat of
beating hollow
owning
slaughtering
demolishing
crucifying
massacring
murdering
tanking
marmalizing
defeating utterly
triumphing over
getting the better of
bringing someone to their knees
running rings around
stuffing
taking to the cleaners
pulverizing
US
overcoming
blowing out of the water
conquering
pulverising
UK
winning a resounding victory over
giving someone a drubbing
blowing out
turning inside out
walking over
flogging
belting
vanquishing
bludgeoning
thumping
mauling
subduing
slogging
striking
killing
doing
walking all over
giving someone a hiding
battering
caning
overpowering
slamming
spanking
mastering
pommelling
bashing
pommeling
prevailing over
trashing
hiding
threshing
leathering
buffeting
buffetting
quashing
dispatching
winning against
rolling
pummelling
UK
basting
pummeling
whaling
overbearing
overmatching
getting
taking
smashing
surmounting
stopping
upending
currying
swamping
defeating heavily
working over
punishing
chastening
chastising
topping
overrunning
outdoing
running circles around
totalling
winning
totaling
giving someone a pasting
roughing up
giving a hiding
putting away
messing up
gaining a victory over
bunging up
getting around
beating up
doing down
taking a stick to
bearing
varnishing
eating alive
shutting out
settling
steamrollering
blasting
winning over
downing
hitting
outstripping
slapping
hurdling
surpassing
excelling
throwing
smearing
mopping up
taking apart
beating the pants off
lambasting
overthrowing
devastating
prostrating
subjugating
quelling
defeating easily
repressing
suppressing
staggering
oppressing
breaking
whelming
flooring
finishing
overmastering
eradicating
knocking out
wiping out
immobilizing
US
bowling over
astonishing
rendering incapable
cutting to pieces
knocking for six
putting paid to
grinding down
rendering powerless
taking someone's breath away
rendering speechless
demoralising
UK
rendering helpless
immobilising
UK
sweeping someone off his
demoralizing
US
gaining mastery over
defeating someone heavily
wasting
capping
blanking
busting
lathering
fixing one's wagon
wiping off the mat
cooking one's goose
undoing
outclassing
putting an end to
extinguishing
putting down
ruining
overturning
upsetting
reducing
squashing
ending
curbing
thwarting
squelching
frustrating
abolishing
outplaying
terminating
giving a drubbing to
humbling
getting rid of
clamping down on
putting a stop to
nipping in the bud
pipping at the post
quenching
stifling
razing
checking
bettering
subverting
extirpating
stamping out
controlling
drowning
silencing
cracking down on
running rings round
triumphing
snuffing out
slapping down
bringing down
overriding
doing in
overshadowing
bearing down
bringing to ruin
putting the kibosh on
shutting down
putting in the shade
toppling
levelling
UK
leveling
US
slaying
whitewashing
butchering
exceeding
pulling down
tearing down
outwitting
decimating
zapping
trampling
outshining
humiliating
vaporizing
US
dominating
pacifying
subjecting
subordinating
eclipsing
exterminating
torpedoing
outrunning
liquidating
unseating
prevailing
trumping
knocking off
decking
rising above
tanning
outperforming
vaporising
UK
transcending
checkmating
knocking over
rubbing out
gaining control over
edging out
KO'ing
taking out
overtopping
bulldozing
improving on
outmatching
outgunning
disposing of
taking care of
overtaking
outdistancing
towering over
trampling underfoot
doing away with
knocking spots off
bringing to their knees
going one better than
putting in their place
getting the upper hand
mullering
unbuilding
outsmarting
taking down
turning something inside out
scrunching
squishing
abusing
wrecking
turning over
capsizing
wronging
persecuting
shooting down
outfighting
desolating
wracking
shattering
nuking
knocking the stuffing out of
outranking
hegemonizing
foiling
containing
maltreating
circumventing
making a fool of
getting one up on
raiding
surviving
weathering
ousting
executing
discomfiting
confounding
improving upon
destructing
dynamiting
stunning
shocking
outliving
rendering
queering
seeing off
deposing
tyrannizing over
shaming
overpassing
outpacing
passing
shooting ahead
shaking off
putting to shame
invading
subsuming
overdrawing
overdeveloping
dumbfounding
overawing
stretching
assassinating
coming out on top of
knocking socks off
succeeding over
hushing up
sitting on
putting the lid on
ruling with an iron hand
razing to the ground
removing
dethroning
coming out on top
bringing to knees
wiping off map
shutting off
beating down
rolling over
supplanting
displacing
getting the upper hand over
laying one out
foraying
inroading
outrivaling
outrivalling
hosing
dissolving
defenestrating
disestablishing
doing better than
shooting ahead of
cowing
purging
tipping
removing from power
tumbling
removing from office
bringing low
foraying into
bumping off
undermining
degrading
dispiriting
weakening
administering the coup de grâce
driving to the wall
taking off
giving the coup de grâce
taking someone's life
carrying off
moving in for the kill
knocking down
bringing about the downfall of
demoting
crippling
enfeebling
putting to flight
incapacitating
impairing
disrating
sapping
downgrading
impoverishing
taming
enervating
causing instability
eliminating
whacking
steamrolling
sinking
edging
powdering
dropping
scotching
getting tough on
obliterating
ambushing
routeing
outmaneuvering
US
outhitting
shipwrecking
outflanking
outmanoeuvring
UK
entrapping
outjumping
taking severe measures against
taking stern measures against
coming down heavily on
weeding out
plowing under
nosing out
restraining
restricting
limiting
winning a victory over
mowing down
running roughshod over
finishing off
taking it all
taking to cleaners
rolling back
clamping down
cracking down
keeping in check
getting tough
pwning
tightening up on
keeping under control
coming down on
coming down on like a ton of bricks
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to extinguish (a fire) by covering it
extinguishing
choking
dampening
dousing
putting out
snuffing out
damping down
stamping out
quenching
blanketing
blowing out
dowsing
douting
stifling
beating out
dampening down
snuffing
outing
extinguishing fire
suffocating
drowning
trampling
switching off
blotting out
stubbing out
turning off
“Extinguish or
smother
the fire on the drapes with wet towels and water.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate
stifling
suffocating
asphyxiating
choking
strangling
strangulating
throttling
drowning
killing
constricting
quashing
choking to death
snuffing out
“I put my hand over her mouth, not hard enough to
smother
her, but firmly enough to give her the message not to speak.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for cover someone or something entirely with
smearing
covering
spreading
bedaubing
besmearing
daubing
coating
plastering
applying
caking
slathering
rubbing
layering
overlaying
encrusting
overspreading
painting
spreading over
lathering
spattering
staining
anointing
slapping
dabbing
surfacing
pasting
smudging
slopping
varnishing
crusting
incrusting
covering thickly
facing
putting
smoothing
laying
glossing
enveloping
encasing
laying on
buttering
riming
spreading around
spreading thickly over
glazing
blanketing
spreading thickly
laminating
plating
washing
inlaying
carpeting
overlying
mantling
veneering
sheeting
glueing
UK
binding
gluing
US
gumming
cementing
mortaring
adhering
dipping
hiding
concealing
brushing
foiling
enamelling
UK
enameling
US
plastering over
begriming
splattering
dirtying
defacing
smirching
sullying
befouling
besmirching
fouling
griming
miring
blackening
bespattering
splashing
gauming
mucking
muddying
distaining
bemiring
soiling
spotting
speckling
variegating
blurring
flecking
slapping on
creaming
spraying
tarring
larding
wiping
slicking
splotching
splodging
greasing
marking
streaking
patching
rubbing on
putting on
defiling
tainting
tarnishing
polluting
contaminating
spoiling
discolouring
UK
discoloring
US
blotching
blotting
corrupting
striping
making dirty
banding
striating
dappling
marbling
slashing
dotting
debasing
blemishing
veining
specking
sprinkling
making impure
straking
messing up
clouding
disgracing
denigrating
ruining
injuring
damaging
adulterating
making filthy
blobbing
lining
mottling
showering
stippling
sloshing
plashing
wetting
slushing
dashing
spritzing
swashing
blacking
dousing
darkening
marring
strewing
besoiling
getting dirty
mucking up
smutching
draggling
making sooty
debauching
vilifying
getting filthy
making muddy
making mucky
caking with dirt
making dusty
making unclean
making darker
making black
airbrushing
shooting
freckling
peppering
barring
making grimy
tingeing
tinging
distorting
lacing
poisoning
distributing
blighting
infecting
freaking
caking with mud
desecrating
shading
inking
ebonizing
caking with soil
messing
maculating
crumbing
degrading
mussing
bedraggling
shaming
making dark
making smoky
mussing up
roiling
riling
murking
beclouding
making murky
making cloudy
clouding up
making blacker
scattering
soaking
drenching
bestrewing
slabbering
bedabbling
besprinkling
lapping
laving
sputtering
dispersing
emitting
broadcasting
discharging
spluttering
spangling
dribbling
squirting
bathing
sopping
moistening
dabbling
drowning
lipping
splatting
plunging
throwing liquid
getting water on
getting wet
more ❯
“Luckily, it wasn't
smothered
in creamy sauce.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective manner towards them
overwhelming
surrounding
cocooning
covering
enveloping
heaping
inundating
showering
shrouding
trapping
“How I am supposed to suppress my overwhelming urge to
smother
every guy I become involved with?”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to suffocate a person's space as if to coerce them to do something
crowding
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
pressuring
leaning on
pressing
goading
prodding
bulldozing
browbeating
brainwashing
dragooning
suffocating
harassing
harrying
hounding
nagging
badgering
pestering
tormenting
plaguing
hassling
railroading
bouncing
hustling
fast-talking
putting the screws on
strong-arming
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put a damper on one's mood or enthusiasm
dulling
dampening
depressing
crushing
dispiriting
sapping
ailing
breaking
dejecting
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
disheartening
dismaying
lowering
overwhelming
stifling
subduing
subjugating
suppressing
troubling
daunting
devitalizing
diminishing
discouraging
enervating
oppressing
saddening
shaking
squelching
upsetting
weakening
abasing
bothering
chagrining
curbing
deadening
debilitating
defeating
distressing
extinguishing
humbling
overcoming
overpowering
perturbing
quelling
wearying
bearing down on
beating down
bumming out
casting down
damping down
weighing down
casting a pall over
putting a damper on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be stacked or loaded with
piling
loading
packing
stacking
heaping
lading
stuffing
filling
stocking
charging
cramming
filling up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force
oppressing
abusing
subjugating
suppressing
crushing
maltreating
persecuting
subduing
enslaving
repressing
tyrannising
UK
tyrannizing
US
wronging
hegemonizing
ill-treating
mastering
overcoming
overpowering
overwhelming
exploiting
scourging
subjecting
keeping down
treating harshly
aggrieving
annoying
besetting
coercing
despotizing
distressing
dominating
encumbering
forcing
grinding down
handicapping
harassing
harrying
holding down
hounding
outraging
overloading
overthrowing
plaguing
pressing
riding
ruling
ruling over
saddling
straining
taxing
tormenting
torturing
trampling
vexing
worrying
holding sway over
putting down
trampling on
trampling underfoot
tyrannizing over
beating down
picking on
putting upon
riding roughshod over
walking all over
bringing to heel
putting screws to
weighing heavy upon
bringing someone to their knees
bringing under the yoke
putting the squeeze on
ruling with a rod of iron
ruling with an iron hand
Verb
▲
Present participle for to criticize (someone or something) harshly
lambasting
castigating
chastising
upbraiding
berating
censuring
condemning
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
rebuking
reprimanding
scolding
attacking
haranguing
ranting at
reproving
reviling
admonishing
chiding
basting
bawling out
carpeting
dressing down
excoriating
flaying
fulminating against
hammering
jawing
keelhauling
laying into
lecturing
ragging
railing at
rating
reproaching
scoring
tongue-lashing
chewing out
objurgating
reprehending
taking to task
telling off
blistering
calling down
calling over the coals
cudgeling
US
cudgelling
UK
denouncing
deriding
hauling over the coals
hitting
lacing to
panning
pitching into
punishing
reaming out
roasting
scorching
scourging
shellacking
slapping
slashing
smearing
striking
tearing into
ticking off
trimming
slagging off
giving someone a dressing-down
having a go at
lashing into
railing against
ripping into
having your knife in
raking over the coals
reading the riot act
Verb
▲
Present participle for to take the life of (someone)
murdering
killing
assassinating
dispatching
massacring
slaughtering
eliminating
executing
butchering
liquidating
hitting
neutralising
UK
neutralizing
US
slaying
wasting
doing in
offing
terminating
croaking
icing
destroying
stiffing
topping
whacking
getting
smoking
snuffing
zapping
finishing
murking
scragging
abolishing
asphyxiating
beheading
chilling
chillin
cooling
decapitating
defeating
doing
electrocuting
eradicating
exterminating
extinguishing
garotting
garrotting
guillotining
hanging
knifing
lynching
shooting
strangling
knocking off
putting to death
taking out
wiping out
blowing away
bumping off
disposing of
putting away
rubbing out
blotting out
cutting to pieces
doing away with
doing for
doing to death
dusting off
mowing down
taking a life
taking the life of
giving someone the works
terminating with extreme prejudice
Verb
▲
Present participle for bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on
lavishing
showering
heaping
pouring
spending
deluging
blowing
dissipating
expending
losing
misspending
raining
squandering
wasting
bestowing
covering
fiddling away
frittering
frittering away
giving
giving freely
giving generously
loading
pampering
running through
scattering
throwing away
trifling away
bestowing freely
giving unstintingly
going through
thrusting upon
spending money like water
Noun
▲
The action of inhibiting a process
inhibition
hindrance
obstruction
restraint
restriction
bar
impediment
check
obstacle
barrier
block
discouragement
hampering
suppression
bridling
checking
constraint
curbing
deterrent
prevention
repression
retardation
arrest
balking
US
baulking
UK
blocking
cramping
encumbrance
fettering
frustration
hazard
holding back
shackling
stifling
baulk
UK
balk
US
chain
clog
cramp
crimp
curb
drag
drawback
embarrassment
fetter
foiling
halting
handicap
hitch
holdback
hurdle
interference
let
manacle
quashing
shackles
snag
stop
stopping
thwarting
trammel
interdict
straitjacket
blockage
embargo
hangup
prohibition
stumbling block
sublimation
nipping in the bud
putting an end to
putting an stop to
control
refrainment
self-command
self-control
discipline
reserve
discretion
continence
self-restraint
keeping back
keeping under control
restraining
biting back
keeping in check
holding in
bottling up
concealment
deadening
containing
muffling
containment
choking back
limitation
impedance
setback
difficulty
delay
interruption
complication
catch
inconvenience
burden
hiccup
facer
cumbrance
albatross
baggage
glitch
gridlock
millstone
cumber
joker
Catch-22
hang-up
jam-up
monkey wrench
fly in the ointment
ball and chain
spanner in the works
monkey wrench in the works
opposition
holdup
choking
barring
problem
hardship
blockade
disadvantage
preventive
barricade
bump
uphill
hamper
disincentive
rub
sticking point
booby trap
mountain to climb
stoppage
slowing
damper
rein
brake
lock
sabotage
intervention
condition
circumscription
stricture
curtailment
handicapping
reduction
excess baggage
foot dragging
detention
limit
constrainment
captivity
constriction
confinement
interference with
spoiling
defeat
failure
countering
circumvention
disappointment
forestalling
scotching
crushing
dashing
derailment
hindering
snookering
crippling
baffling
foundering
collapse
nonfulfillment
nonfulfilment
blow
scuppering
contravention
unfulfillment
lack of success
nonsuccess
disturbance
non-success
more ❯
Noun
▲
The crime of killing by strangling
strangling
asphyxiation
choking
crushing
strangulation
suffocation
throttling
stifling
gassing
Noun
▲
The action of suppressing something such as an activity or publication
suppression
concealment
censorship
hiding
withholding
banning
gagging
muzzling
non-disclosure
stifling
camouflage
covering
disguising
keeping secret
outlawing
proscription
restriction
stonewalling
covering up
cover-up
keeping hidden
silencing
wraps
hushing up
conspiracy of silence
veil of secrecy
disguise
secretion
veil
squashing
burial
hush-up
-gate
placing under wraps
seal of secrecy
stashing
caching
cover
misprision
whitewash
blind
obscuration
obliteration
dissimulation
mask
beard
hide-out
occultation
front
curtain
hiding place
smoke screen
fig leaf
red herring
facade
pretence
UK
façade
guise
pretense
US
masquerade
semblance
put-on
false front
veneer
screen
smokescreen
cloak
deception
show
pose
pretext
charade
act
playacting
pretension
airs
pretentiousness
dress
feint
make-believe
faking
illusion
window-dressing
counterfeit
trickery
pageant
face
smoke and mirrors
scheme
masking
closeting
smoke-screen
simulation
affectation
air
shroud
visage
appearance
false colours
window dressing
dissembling
disguisement
aspect
posture
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Significantly high in temperature
sultry
hot
humid
close
sticky
stifling
sweltering
muggy
stuffy
torrid
airless
boiling
oppressive
roasting
suffocating
ardent
broiling
burning
damp
fervent
fervid
fiery
heavy
red
red-hot
scalding
scorching
searing
steamy
superheated
tropical
ultrahot
warm
white-hot
baking
mucky
piping hot
sizzling
soggy
sweltry
wet
hot and humid
blistering
blazing
parching
flaming
tropic
heated
sweaty
steaming
like an oven
clammy
very warm
on fire
boiling hot
incandescent
very hot
summery
fuggy
like a Turkish bath
baking hot
moist
feverish
smoking
fevered
igneous
febrile
dank
like a sauna
soupy
recalescent
decalescent
calescent
white
thermogenic
ovenlike
feverous
piping
glowing
extremely hot
breathless
unventilated
blazing hot
stale
withering
dampish
like a furnace
misty
confined
stagnant
thick
unbearably hot
balmy
oven-like
like a blowtorch
jungle-like
frowsty
musty
sodden
irriguous
fetid
US
dripping
ablaze
foetid
UK
burning up
foggy
cloudy
febrific
hectic
steam bath
in flames
lush
pyretic
stewing
perspiring
low
watery
burning hot
overpowering
uncomfortably warm
thermal
smoky
central
very damp
unaired
dry
equatorial
arid
flashing
parched
choky
mouldy
UK
uncomfortable
fusty
moldy
US
stale-smelling
badly ventilated
poorly ventilated
gleaming
sweat box
barren
scorched
enkindled
oxidising
UK
oxidizing
US
smoldering
US
illuminated
smouldering
UK
waterless
desert
dried
clouded
fogged
hazy
fiery hot
steamed up
hot and sticky
misted up
fogged up
afire
frowzy
aflame
kindled
ignited
inflamed
lit
raging
conflagrant
alight
enflamed
combusting
flushed
lighted
violent
passionate
flickering
agitable
turbulent
flaring
unrestrained
wettish
emotional
drizzly
spirited
dampened
vaporous
dewy
moistened
impetuous
lively
hot-blooded
intense
sopping
wetted
moisture-laden
showery
rainy
earnest
red-blooded
enthusiastic
charged
religious
impassioned
vehement
perfervid
rash
tempestuous
passional
demonstrative
soaked
soaking
drenched
saturated
oozy
waterlogged
drippy
excitable
vivacious
warm-blooded
zealous
fierce
eager
excited
fanatical
keen
strong
profound
animated
frenzied
heartfelt
deep-seated
wholehearted
vigorous
consuming
furious
angry
powerful
forceful
urgent
sincere
deep
committed
wild
energetic
acute
ecstatic
uncontrollable
extreme
avid
dedicated
frantic
thrilling
volatile
temperamental
impulsive
dithyrambic
incensed
feeling
explosive
heightened
ungovernable
assiduous
deep-rooted
full-hearted
forcible
vivid
all-consuming
deeply felt
messianic
serious
delirious
sentimental
expressive
hearty
stormy
melodramatic
hyper
amorous
moving
stirring
mad keen
tender
responsive
hot-tempered
hopped up
mercurial
fuming
enraged
arousing
sexy
titillating
wrathful
mighty
tremendous
seething
aroused
mettlesome
spunky
high-spirited
scintillating
gingery
resolute
peppery
rhapsodic
rave
nutty
effusive
irascible
gung-ho
adulatory
laudatory
eulogistic
emotive
worked up
mushy
inspired
overemotional
starry-eyed
romantic
rousing
touching
fired up
from the heart
relentless
devout
emphatic
very angry
susceptible
fulsome
panegyrical
commendatory
admiring
praising
compelling
ghastly
almighty
sensitive
overzealous
volcanic
short-fuse
hot-headed
high-strung
highly strung
hysterical
neurotic
hard
major
shivering
sweating
rapturous
complimentary
acclamatory
lionizing
US
exquisite
excessive
ferocious
sentient
verklempt
stirred
exciting
overcharged
loving
roused
touchy-feely
heartwarming
card-carrying
dreadful
drastic
aguey
hellacious
sharp
terrible
fearful
laudative
encomiastical
highly complimentary
highly favourable
clamorous
outspoken
vocal
loud
noisy
vociferous
fearsome
significant
great
extraordinary
enthused
pious
unfeigned
warmhearted
forthright
insistent
strident
vicious
exceptional
having the shakes
with a high temperature
running a temperature
with a temperature
above normal
appreciative
lionising
UK
flattering
full of praise
congratulatory
desirous
true blue
severe
intensive
frightful
desperate
rabid
full-throated
pronounced
opinionated
potent
concentrated
gotta have
gung ho
dying to
keen as mustard
hot for
excruciating
critical
heavy-duty
cut-throat
on the make
very happy
steadfast
allegiant
tumultuous
inspiring
eloquent
poignant
high-pressure
hotblooded
stimulated
precipitate
affecting
headlong
quickened
high-powered
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Constructed so as to prevent the passage of water, air, etc.
tight
impervious
impenetrable
sealed
sound
watertight
hermetic
airtight
impermeable
locked
fastened
proof
waterproof
blocked
bolted
clumped
obstructed
plugged
shut
snapped
hermetically sealed
stopped up
closed
resistant
imperviable
impregnable
impassable
solid
rainproof
inaccessible
tamper-proof
water-resistant
firm
dense
water-repellent
inviolable
impassible
invulnerable
immune
unpierceable
damp-proof
unyielding
repellent
bulletproof
protected
padlocked
cinched
shut tight
wrapped
fixed
coated
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