ALL meanings of smother
smoth·er
S s - verb with object smother to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing. 1
- verb with object smother to extinguish or deaden (fire, coals, etc.) by covering so as to exclude air. 1
- verb with object smother to cover closely or thickly; envelop: to smother a steak with mushrooms. 1
- verb with object smother to suppress or repress: to smother feelings. 1
- verb with object smother Cookery. to steam (food) slowly in a heavy, tightly closed vessel with a minimum of liquid: smothered chicken and onions. 1
- verb without object smother to become stifled or suffocated; be prevented from breathing. 1
- verb without object smother to be stifled; be suppressed or concealed. 1
- noun smother dense, stifling smoke. 1
- noun smother a smoking or smoldering state, as of burning matter. 1
- noun smother dust, fog, spray, etc., in a dense or enveloping cloud. 1
- noun smother an overspreading profusion of anything: a smother of papers. 1
- transitive verb smother asphyxiate 1
- transitive verb smother a fire 1
- transitive verb smother with love, kisses 1
- transitive verb smother spread thick layer 1
- transitive verb smother stifle, suppress 1
- verb smother If you smother a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out. 0
- verb smother To smother someone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe. 0
- verb smother Things that smother something cover it completely. 0
- verb smother If you smother someone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much. 0
- verb smother If you smother an emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it. 0
- verb smother If an activity or process is smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing. 0
- verb smother to suffocate or stifle by cutting off or being cut off from the air 0
- verb smother to surround (with) or envelop (in) 0
- verb smother to extinguish (a fire) by covering so as to cut it off from the air 0
- verb smother to be or cause to be suppressed or stifled 0
- verb smother to cook or serve (food) thickly covered with sauce, etc 0
- noun smother anything, such as a cloud of smoke, that stifles 0
- noun smother a profusion or turmoil 0
- noun smother a state of smouldering or a smouldering fire 0
- verb transitive smother to keep from getting enough air to breathe; stifle 0
- verb transitive smother to kill in this way; suffocate 0
- verb transitive smother to cover (a fire), excluding air from it and causing it to smolder or die down 0
- verb transitive smother to cover over thickly 0
- verb transitive smother to hide or suppress by or as by covering; stifle 0
- intransitive verb smother to be kept from getting enough air to breathe 0
- intransitive verb smother to die in this way; be suffocated 0
- intransitive verb smother to be hidden, stifled, or suppressed 0
- noun smother dense, suffocating smoke or any thick cloud of dust, steam, fog, etc. 0
- noun smother a confused turmoil; welter 0
- noun smother a smoldering fire 0
- noun smother a smoldering state or condition 0