Smother

Definition: Smother

Smother

Noun

1. A confused multitude of things.

2. A stifling cloud of smoke.

Verb

1. Envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy".

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".

3. Conceal, suppress, or hide; "smother a yawn".

4. Form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake".

5. Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "smother" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Synonyms: Smother

Aphony

Silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short.

Concealment

Keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore.

Cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.

Insulation, Fire extinction

Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.

Killing

Strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.

Restraint

Keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit; inhibit, cohibit.

Crosswords: Smother

Honey, if you don't tell me what's on your mind, I'm afraid I'll have to smother you with a pillow. (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Smother you with kisses. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Come in, I've been expecting you There's a knock on the door and love walks through And lights a fire and smiles a smile As if love were going to stay a while And the fire breathes and weaves its spell But then love runs out of lies to tell For love is restless, love's a flirt Love has places to go and people to hurt So here's the shovel to smother the flame Tomorrow you'll barely remember my name And I'll try to forget you, my dearest one As a prisoner tries to forget the sun For life holds no purpose, and love holds no charms Since I beheld you in another's arms. ('Til There Was You; writing credit: Winnie Holzman)

You used to smother her, look at your honey slippin' away (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Into the smother; a journal of the Burma-Siam railway (reference)

• Smother (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hairy smother weed - Bassia hirsuta at Sage Lot Pond, South Cape Beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "smother": go from smoke to smother ♦ smother fly ♦ smother in ♦ smother up ♦ smother with ♦ smother with kisses ♦ to smother silk cocoons. Additional references.

Beginning with "smother": smother-love, smother-smoothed.

Albanian

mbytem (be drowned, choke, drown, drown oneself, get drowned, go under), mbyt (asphyxiate, assail, blanket, choke, deluge, drown, jugulate, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle, wreck), mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, blanket, cap, Ceil, cloak, clothe, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, dissimulate, enshroud, entwine, envelop, enwrap, heap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, suffuse, tuck up, wrap), më merret fryma (be out of breath, suffocate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مات مخنوقا, ‏سحابة غبار, ‏طفا (drift, float, put out, ride, shut off, swim), ‏طها (cook, curry, stew), ‏خنق بالدخان (smolder, smoulder), ‏إحتوى (consist of, contain, govern, hold, push back, stem), ‏إختنق (asphyxiate, choke, stifle, strangle, suffocate), ‏أخفى (cloak, conceal, cover up, harbor, harbour, hid, hill, hush, keep, obscure, obstruct, palm, receive, secrete, shelter, stash, stow, suppress, wrap), ‏أخمد النار, ‏دخان كثيف (smolder, smoulder). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сдържам (command, contain, guard, pocket, press back, repress, restrain, stifle, suppress), гъст облак прах, гъст облак дим, отрупвам (clutter, heap, heap smth. up, heap up, overwhelm, pile, ply, snow under), обуздавам (bit, bridle, chastise, curb, hamshackle, harness, leash, manage, quell, rein in, repress, restrain, school, steady), обсипвам (assail, beset, besiege, deluge, heap, intersperse, load, pepper, sow, spot, strew, stud), задушавам (asphyxiate, braise, choke, damp, jug, jugulate, overlie, poach, stew, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), потушавам (clamp, extinguish, mortify, overbear, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, repress, snuff out, squash, strangle, subdue, suppress, tread down), душа (breast, ghost, heart, inside, lifeblood, mastermind, nature, nose, nuzzle, psyche, quest, scent, scrag, smell, smell about, sniff, soul, spirit, stifle, throttle). (various references)

Chinese 

�'息 (Asphyxiate, Asphyxiated, asphyxiating, Asphyxiation, smothered, smothering, suffocate, Suffocated, suffocating), 悶 (melancholy, stuffy). (various references)

Czech

zadusit (asphyxiate), udusit (quash, snuff out, suppress, throttle), prach (coverts, dust, powder), potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame), pokrýt (cover, drape, embower, encase, meet, overlay, paper, spread), dým (reek). (various references)

Danish

at dræbe silkekokoner (to kill silk cocoons, to smother silk cocoons). (various references)

Farsi 

خفه کردن (Asphyxiate, Choke, Extinguish, Mute, Scrag, Shutup, Smolder, Squash, Stifle, Strangle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle), خفه شدن , خاموش کردن (Extinguish, Hush, Out, Quench, Smolder, Stanch, Stifle, Suffocate), دردل نگاه داشتن . (various references)

Finnish

tukahduttaa (asphyxiate, keep back, repress, stifle, suffocate). (various references)

French

s'étouffer, réprimer, mourir étouffé, fumée dense (smoulder), couvrir (smoulder), contenir, étouffer (smoulder), éteindre. (various references)

German

ersticken (asphyxiate, be suffocated, become choked, choke, choke up, damp, muffle, muzzle, quell, snuff, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle, to asphyxiate, to smother, to stifle). (various references)

Greek 

σύννεφο (cloud, scud), προκαλώ ασφυξία (asphyxiate), πνίγω (choke, drown, muffle, overwhelm, stifle, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle), αποπνίγω (suffocate). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ח� יק (asphyxiate, choke, stifle, strangle). (various references)

Hungarian

megfullaszt (asphyxiate, suffocate, to asphyxiate), elrejt (conceal, disguise, ensconce, hid, hidden, hide, hide away, obscure, secrete, to cache, to conceal, to disguise, to eloign, to enshroud, to hide, to recess, to screen, to secrete, to shelter, to smother up, to squirrel away, to stash, vail), elfojt (Burke, close down, damp, deafen, extinguish, quench, repress, suppress, to bottle, to bottle up, to check, to curb, to damp, to deaden, to drown out, to inhibit, to mask, to put down, to quash, to quell, to repress, to silence, to smother, to stifle, to strangle, to strangulate, to subdue, to suppress, to tame, to throttle down, to wad). (various references)

Indonesian

mencekiki (choke, repeatedly smother). (various references)

Italian

stufare (bore, curry, get tired, stew), soffocare (choke, quell, squash, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter), reprimere (inhibit, put down, quash, quell, repress, restrain, squelch, suppress), opprimere (bully, charge, grind, load, oppress, overlay, overpower, ride, soffocate, suppress, tyrannize, vex, weigh down), fumo soffocante, coprire (be covered, become overcast, cap, cover, cover oneself, deck, drape, hold, lay down with, lay over, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overspread, screen, shroud, suffuse, to cover, top, veil, whitewash, wrap up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

黙殺 (ignore, shelve, treat with silent contempt). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もくさつ (ignore, shelve, treat with silent contempt). (various references)

Korean 

질식시키십시�" (stifle). (various references)

Manx

plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choke, choking, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, muffle, restrain, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, tamp). (various references)

Pig Latin

othersmay

Portuguese

suprimir (burke, crush, cut, dele, dissolve, eliminate, exterminate, fade away, knock out, liquidate, obliterate, prune, put down, quash, quell, stop, suppress, throttle, wipe out), sufocar (choke, quell, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), refogar (braise), ocultar (bury, cache, conceal, couch, cover, hide, hugger-mugger, occult, sconce, screen, secrete), nuvem de fumaça (cloud of smoke), nevoeiro espesso, extinguir (die, do for, douse, exterminate, extinguish, fade, jugulate, obliterate, out, put out, quash, quench, wipe out), asfixiar (asphyxiate, burke, choke, stifle, suffocate), abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cover up, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, muffle, pilfer, quell, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Romanian

sugruma (Burke, choke, jugulate, stifle, strangle, suppress, throttle), sufoca (asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocate, throttle), stinge (allay, annihilate, annul, appease, baste, choke, die, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, hush, quench, quit, silence, slack, slake, wither), se sufoca (choke, gag, stifle, strangle), se asfixia (stifle), ucide (assassinate, butcher, croak, destroy, execute, kill, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, spoil, strangle, suffocate), fum (flue, fume, reek, smoke, whiff), dispãrea sub, copleşi (crush, flood, heap, invade, load, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pelt, prostrate, shower, stun, whelm), asfixia (asphyxiate, choke, suffocate), abur (breath, breathing, breeze, damp, exhalation, fog, fume, haze, reek, smoke, steam, vapor, vapour), îneca (choke, deluge, drown, float, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, steep, stifle, suffocate, suffuse, swamp), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Russian 

душить (choke, scent, smothers, stifle, stifle joint, strangle, strangles, strangulate, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Scottish

tùch, mùch (extinguish, squeeze together, suffocate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, squash, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Spanish

sofocarse (choke, flush, stifle, suffocate), contener (bottle up, bridle, check, comprise, contain, control, enclose, govern, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, intercept, keep back, keep down, keep in, press back, restrain, rule, run by, suppress), apagar (beat out, blow out, douse, extinguish, kill, mute, puff out, put off, put out, silence, slake, stub out, turn off, turn out), ahogarse (choke, drown, stifle, suffocate, throttle), ahogar (choke, damp, dampen, drown, kill, oppress, quash, stalemate, stifle, strangling, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Swedish

kväva (asphyxiate, choke, damp, dampen, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้หอบ, หายใจเหนื่อยหอบ. (various references)

Turkish

yoğun duman, yenilmek (go down, go to the wall, score under, succumb, take a beating), kontrol altına almak, boğulmak (be drowned, choke, get drowned, splutter, sputter, stifle, suffocate), boğucu madde (asphyxiant), boğucu duman, boğmak (asphyxiate, Burke, choke, drown, glut, inundate, jugulate, overwhelm, smother with, stifle, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle, whelm), boğarak öldürmek (choke, scrag, strangle), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), baskı altında kalma. (various references)

Ukrainian

сильний снігопад, їдкий дим, густий туман (fog, soup), задушити (jugulate, strangle), задихнутися, задихатися (asphyxiate, choke, gasp, pant, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), душити (asphyxiate, champ, choke, stifle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cháy âm ỉ tình trạng âm ỉ đám bụi mù, lửa âm ỉ. (various references)

Welsh

mygu (asphyxiate, smoke, stifle, suffocate), llethu (oppress, overlie, overpower, overwhelm). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "smother": smothered, smothering, smothers, smothery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Smother" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amother, Scothern, sgothan, smoocher, smoothe, smothes, smythe, t'other. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mothers, thermos.

-1 letter: homers, horste, metros, mosher, mother, others, reshot, therms, throes.

-2 letters: ethos, herms, heros, hoers, homer, homes, horse, horst, meths, metro, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, moths, omers, other, roset, rotes, shoer, shore, short, shote, smote, store, storm, terms, therm, those, throe, tomes, tores, torse.

-3 letters: eros, erst, eths, hems, herm, hero, hers, hest.

+1 letter: isotherm, mouthers, resmooth, smoother, smothers, smothery, teraohms, theorems.

+2 letters: atheromas, chromates, chromites, comethers, heartsome, homeports, horsemint, isotherms, metaphors, ohmmeters, outhomers, resmooths, smoothers, smothered, stomacher, thermions, thermoses, thermoset, threesome, trichomes, vermouths.

+3 letters: atmosphere, bothersome, earthworms, ectomorphs, ectotherms, endotherms, godmothers, hammertoes, heartworms, hectograms, heteronyms, hithermost, horsemints, hypsometer, isothermal, mentorship, mesothorax, motherless, nethermost, outmarches, resmoothed, rheometers, rhytidomes, smoothbore, smothering, stenotherm, stepmother, stomachers, thermistor, thermosets, thermostat, thimerosal, threesomes, thromboses.

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