Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of smothering, or the state of being smothered; suffocation.
- noun A sailors' dish of beef and pork smothered with potatoes.
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Examples
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But they will never, never abolish jazz -- never, for it is the grandest, the most wonderful, the most absolutely necessary thing for women in this terrible age of smotheration. "
The Call of the Canyon Zane Grey 1905
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"I never was in such a smotheration of a place before.
Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884
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