smothered

• Of course, I took an oxygen bag; the man who goes for the altitude record without one will either be frozen or smothered -- or both I had a good look at the planes, the rudder-bar, and the elevating lever before I got in. —  The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories
• In more elevated stations they are entirely smothered, and under the mask of sentiment, only interest or vanity is heard Having written to my father from Lausanne, he sent my packet and some excellent advice, of which I should have profited better. —  The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire
• Stashed from room to room, this small hemp-rope tobacco-leaf-brown ancestral relic was lifted, light as balsa wood, to the upper attics where she was covered, smothered, then ignored by a family, eager for survival and forgetful of unremembered deaths' leftovers. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 03 - September 1994
• He had observed half a dozen men buried--smothered beneath muck in a tunnel cave-in; he had seen a giant Negro shot through planking and sand and water in a "blow" beneath the East River. —  090 - Tunnel Terror
• But some of us felt smothered, and as soon as the affair was over, started immediately for the camp, where we could have exhilarating mountain air once more. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

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