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Suppressed Her Modest Disposition Crossword Clue
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We've checked our database and believe the answer is
SMOTHERED which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is:
SMOTHERED
Updated: October 14, 2023 by Nicoli Westwood
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About This Clues Answer
We think the answer is "SMOTHERED" which means:
- adjective satellite
- • Held in check with difficulty
- • Completely covered verb
- • To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- • To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- • To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- • In cookery: to cook in a close dish.
- • To daub or smear.
- • To be suffocated.
- • To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- • (of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- • To perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- • To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- • To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. when a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
An example sentence would be:
- • "She smothered the fire with a blanket."
- • "He smothered his pancakes with syrup."
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| Source | #Number | Answer |
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| The Guardian Cryptic29 Mar 2006 | Across 17 | |
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