- to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- to extinguish or deaden (fire, coals, etc.) by covering so as to exclude air.
- to cover closely or thickly; envelop: to smother a steak with mushrooms.
- to suppress or repress: to smother feelings.
- to steam (food) slowly in a heavy, tightly closed vessel with a minimum of liquid: smothered chicken and onions.
- to become stifled or suffocated; be prevented from breathing.
- to be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- dense, stifling smoke.
- a smoking or smoldering state, as of burning matter.
- dust, fog, spray, etc., in a dense or enveloping cloud.
- an overspreading profusion of anything: a smother of papers.
- to suffocate or stifle by cutting off or being cut off from the air
- to surround (with) or envelop (in)
- to extinguish (a fire) by covering so as to cut it off from the air
- to be or cause to be suppressed or stifled
- to cook or serve (food) thickly covered with sauce, etc
- anything, such as a cloud of smoke, that stifles
- a profusion or turmoil
- a state of smouldering or a smouldering fire
