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Smother

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Noun

1. clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter

a confused multitude of things

2. smother

a stifling cloud of smoke

Verb

3. smother, surround

envelop completely

Example Sentences:
'smother the meat in gravy'

4. asphyxiate, smother, suffocate

deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing

Example Sentences:
'Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow'
'The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor'

5. muffle, repress, smother, stifle, strangle

conceal or hide

Example Sentences:
'smother a yawn'
'muffle one's anger'
'strangle a yawn'

6. smother

form an impenetrable cover over

Example Sentences:
'the butter cream smothered the cake'

7. put out, smother

deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion

Example Sentences:
'smother fires'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Smother

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verb
1. 
to suffocate or stifle by cutting off or being cut off from the air
2. (transitive)
to surround (with) or envelop (in)
he smothered her with love
3. (transitive)
to extinguish (a fire) by covering so as to cut it off from the air
4. 
to be or cause to be suppressed or stifled
smother a giggle
5. (transitive)
to cook or serve (food) thickly covered with sauce, etc
noun
6. 
anything, such as a cloud of smoke, that stifles
7. 
a profusion or turmoil
8. archaic
a state of smouldering or a smouldering fire

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Smother

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verb transitive
1. 
a. 
to keep from getting enough air to breathe; stifle
b. 
to kill in this way; suffocate
2. 
to cover (a fire), excluding air from it and causing it to smolder or die down
3. 
to cover over thickly
liver smothered in onions
4. 
to hide or suppress by or as by covering; stifle
to smother a yawn
verb intransitive
5. 
a. 
to be kept from getting enough air to breathe
b. 
to die in this way; be suffocated
6. 
to be hidden, stifled, or suppressed
noun
7. 
dense, suffocating smoke or any thick cloud of dust, steam, fog, etc.
8. 
a confused turmoil; welter
9.  Archaic
a smoldering fire
10.  Archaic
a smoldering state or condition

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Smother

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v. smoth·ered, smoth·er·ing, smoth·ers
v.tr.
1.
a. To suffocate (another).
b. To deprive (a fire) of the oxygen necessary for combustion.
2. To conceal, suppress, or hide: Management smothered the true facts of the case. We smothered our indignation and pressed onward.
3. To cover thickly: smother chicken in sauce.
4. To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone): The grandparents smothered the child with affection.
v.intr.
1.
a. To suffocate.
b. To be extinguished.
2. To be concealed or suppressed.
3. To be surfeited with an emotion.
n.
Something, such as a dense cloud of smoke or dust, that smothers or tends to smother.

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