Usually means: Oppressively close; stifling; overly protective.
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  1. smothery: Merriam-Webster
  2. smothery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smothery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. smothery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smothery: Wordnik
  6. smothery: Wiktionary
  7. smothery: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. smothery: Dictionary.com
  9. Smothery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. smothery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Smothery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. smothery: FreeDictionary.org
  13. smothery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Tending to smother; smothering; stifling.

Similar:
smotherable, stifling, suffocate, choked, overbowering, understrapping, enmired, bogged down, obnubilate, hide-all, more...

Opposite:
breathable, airy, ventilated, open

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Similar:
smotherable, stifling, suffocate, choked, overbowering, understrapping, enmired, bogged down, obnubilate, hide-all, more...

Opposite:
breathable, airy, ventilated, open



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