Smother

Verb

 * 1)  To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.
 * 2)  To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes.
 * 3)  To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle; cover up; conceal; hide: as, the committee's report was smothered.
 * 4)  In cookery: to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions.
 * 5)  To daub or smear.
 * 6)  To be suffocated.
 * 7)  To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
 * 8)  Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
 * 9)  Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
 * 10)  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.

Related terms

 * smotheration
 * smotheriness
 * smothery

Noun

 * 1) That which smothers or appears to smother, in any sense.
 * 2) The state of being stifled; suppression.
 * 3)  The act of smothering a kick (see above).

Adverbs for Smother
fatally; painfully; incontinently; politely; insidiously; socially; economically; politically; viciously.

Thesaurus
OD, abate, allay, alleviate, asphyxiate, assuage, attemper, bake, bank the fire, be in heat, be killed, beat, black out, blanket, blaze, bloom, blow out, blunt, boil, bottle up, box, broil, burke, burn, case, censor, chasten, check, choke, choke off, clamp down on, clobber, collect, combust, conceal, constrain, control, cook, cool, cork, cork up, cover, cover up, crack down on, crate, crush, damp, damp down, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, diminish, douse, downplay, drown, drub, dull, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, extenuate, extinguish, famish, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, fry, gag, garrote, gasp, glow, hide, hold back, hold down, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, incandesce, inhibit, inundate, invest, jump on, keep back, keep down, keep under, keep within bounds, kill, lambaste, lap, lay, lenify, lessen, lick, lighten, mask, mitigate, moderate, modulate, muffle, muzzle, obtund, out, overcome, overwhelm, pack, package, palliate, pant, parch, play down, pour water on, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, radiate heat, reduce, reduce the temperature, rein, repress, restrain, roast, scald, scorch, seethe, sheathe, shellac, shimmer with heat, shower, shroud, shush, shut down on, silence, simmer, simmer down, sit down on, sit on, slack, slacken, slow down, smash, smear, smolder, snuff, snuff out, sober, sober down, soften, spark, squash, squelch, stamp out, stanch, starve, steam, stew, stifle, stop the breath, strangle, stultify, subdue, sublimate, suffocate, suppress, surround, sweat, swelter, tame, temper, thrash, throttle, toast, tone down, trample out, trample underfoot, trim, tune down, underplay, weaken, wrap, wrap about, wrap up

Etymology 1
From smothren:, smortheren:, alteration (due to smother:, smorther:) of  smoren:, from  smorian:, from. Cognate with smoren:, smurten:, West  smoren:,  smoren:,  schmoren:.

Etymology 2
From smother:, smorther:, from  *undefined:, from smorian: + -þor:.

Verb

 * Catalan: asfixiar
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Polish: udusić
 * Russian: душить
 * Spanish: sofocar


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: spegnere, estinguere


 * Polish: zdusić


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: πνίγω, καταπνίγω


 * Polish: przydusić


 * Italian: affogare, ricoprire, colmare


 * Polish: dusić


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: πνίγομαι


 * Russian: задыхаться


 * Finnish:


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Anagrams

 * mothers
 * thermos