Definitions for smother
ˈsmʌð ərsmoth·er

Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

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

   a confused multitude of things

2. smotherverb

   a stifling cloud of smoke

3. smother, surroundverb

   envelop completely

   "smother the meat in gravy"

4. smother, asphyxiate, suffocateverb

   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"

5. smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repressverb

   conceal or hide

   "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

6. smotherverb

   form an impenetrable cover over

   "the butter cream smothered the cake"

7. smother, put outverb

   deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion

   "smother fires"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Smotherverb

   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

2. Smotherverb

   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

3. Smotherverb

   hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure

4. Smotherverb

   to be suffocated or stifled

5. Smotherverb

   to burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder

6. Smotherverb

   stifling smoke; thick dust

7. Smotherverb

   a state of suppression

8. Etymology: [OE. smotheren; akin to E. smoor. See Smoor.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.]

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Disorderliness
   • Extinguish
   • Kill

Anagrams for smother »

1. Mothers

2. Thermos

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of smother in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of smother in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of smother in a Sentence

1. Margaret Chan:

   We are scaling up our action, We must smother this little fire before it gets out of control.

2. The Omani shed:

   When you want something desperately, you smother the chance for it to come to you. Relax; focus on life as it is in the here and now, then all will come to you before you know it!

3. The Democrats:

   It’s not in a bloody Civil War, it’s a revolution that is sold to you as progress when it is not, if America were patient, this White House will be happy to smother it with a pillow.

4. Leonard Hand:

   Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.

5. Joshua Crosier:

   crime is like a fire you must smother it before it gets out of hand

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