They form a tight, smothering ball around the attacking hornet and kill it by asphyxiation. Even judo's pinning techniques have pain-generating, spine-and-rib-squeezing and smothering aspects. They extinguish the fire by rapid smothering and cooling. Nancy and Don go upstairs to find a burning Krueger smothering Marge in her bedroom. The Hawkeyes defense was smothering, shutting out the Scarlet Knights and forced three turnovers. Chucky kills Howard by smothering him with a pillow after ripping off his lip piercings. Marcello becomes enraged, telling her that he cannot live with her smothering, maternal love. Smothering unwanted chicks or poults in bags or containers is not acceptable. Sandy's love for Kiki is overwhelming, and smothering Kiki. At the beach she falls asleep and dreams that he is smothering her in sand. Water also extinguishes a fire by smothering it. He killed Taylor Pifer by smothering her with a pillow. Yousef wanted the smoke to remain in the tower, smothering people inside, killing them slowly. The prosecution alleged Folbigg murdered her four children by smothering them during periods of frustration. Richards argued that poptimism cheerleads the already successful while privileging consensus and smothering dissent.