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Found 2 items, similar to smother.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: smother
smother
n 1: a confused multitude of things [syn:
clutter,
jumble,
muddle,
mare's nest,
welter]
2: a stifling cloud of smoke
v 1: envelop completely;
“smother the meat in gravy” [syn:
surround]
2: deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;
“Othello
smothered Desdemona with a pillow”;
“The child suffocated
herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on
the floor” [syn:
asphyxiate,
suffocate]
3: conceal or hide;
“smother a yawn”;
“muffle one's anger”;
“strangle a yawn” [syn:
stifle,
strangle,
muffle,
repress]
4: form an impenetrable cover over;
“the butter cream smothered
the cake”
5: deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion;
“smother
fires” [syn:
put out]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Smother
Smother
\Smoth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Smothered; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Smothering.] [OE. smotheren; akin to E. smoor. See
Smoor.]
1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the
air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to
prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
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2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air
by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like;
as, to smother a fire.
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3. Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public
view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's
displeasure.
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Smother
\Smoth"er\, v. i.
1. To be suffocated or stifled.
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2. To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
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Smother
\Smoth"er\, n. [OE. smorther. See
Smother, v. t.]
1. Stifling smoke; thick dust. --Shak.
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2. A state of suppression. [Obs.]
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Not to keep their suspicions in smother. --Bacon.
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3. That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering,
as smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude
of things.
Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of
the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm.
--The Century.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Smother fly (Zo["o]l.), an aphid.
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