Definition of smother Smother

/smʌˈðɚ/ - [smuther] - smoth•er

We found 30 definitions of smother from 5 different sources.

What does smother mean?

Noun Plural: smothers
smother - a stifling cloud of smoke
smother - a confused multitude of things
		clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter
		disorder, disorderliness a disturbance of the peace or of public order
Verb smothers, smothering, smothered
smother - 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"
		asphyxiate, suffocate
		cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!"
		kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
smother - conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
		stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
		stamp down, conquer, curb, inhibit, suppress, subdue overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"
smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
		put out
		snuff out, extinguish put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
smother - envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
		surround
		cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!"
smother - form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake"
		spread over, cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!"

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smother (Noun)
That which smothers or appears to smother, in any sense.
smother (Noun)
The state of being stifled; suppression.
smother (Noun)
The act of smothering a kick see above.
smother (Verb)
To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.
smother (Verb)
To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes.
smother (Verb)
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.
smother (Verb)
In cookery: to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions.
smother (Verb)
To daub or smear.
smother (Verb)
To be suffocated.
smother (Verb)
To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
smother (Verb)
Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
smother (Verb)
Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
smother (Verb)
To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
smother (Verb)
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.

smother (v. t.)
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.
smother (v. t.)
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.
smother (v. t.)
Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
smother (v. i.)
To be suffocated or stifled.
smother (v. i.)
To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
smother (v. t.)
Stifling smoke; thick dust.
smother (v. t.)
A state of suppression.

smother
smuth′ėr, v.t. to suffocate by excluding the air: to conceal.—v.i. to be suffocated or suppressed: to smoulder.—n. smoke: thick floating dust: state of being smothered: confusion.—ns. Smotherā′tion, suffocation: a sailor's dish of meat buried in potatoes; Smoth′eriness.—adv. Smoth′eringly.—adj. Smoth′ery, tending to smother: stifling. [M. E. smorther—A.S. smorian, to smother; cf. Ger. schmoren, to stew.]