smotherer

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smotherer

(ˈsmʌðərə)

a person or thing that smothers

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smotherer - a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop"

stifler

individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

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Kincaid's terms, she is the mother as intruder, as smotherer, "oafish and deadly" (285).

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I'd spent much of my adult life trying to escape the force of my mother, whom I experienced primarily as a smotherer of self (we were not a good personality match, and she had a powerful and controlling character).

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"Hopkins is three things: a spoiler, a stealer and a smotherer - and that's all he is.

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She will call him a "smotherer," or say that he was "too nice," or just plain "too perfect"--and will never be able to fully explain exactly what was wrong with him, only that "something just wasn't right."