"Smother" is a word in ENGLISH
Stifling smoke; thick dust.
To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of
air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to
smother a fire.
To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of
the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent
breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public
view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
A state of suppression.
To be suffocated or stifled.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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