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Unfathomable vs Smothering - What's the difference?

unfathomable | smothering |

As an adjective unfathomable

is impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.

As a verb smothering is

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As a noun smothering is

the act by which someone or something is smothered.

unfathomable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.
    • The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.}}
  • Difficult to penetrate.

    • Antonyms

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    smothering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is smothered.
  • * 2010 , Harry Hill, Livin' the Dreem: A Year in My Life (page 397)
    • When he came to, he begged me not to tell the hotel management, as his last two attempted smotherings had ended in failure and he was worried about losing his job.