Associations to the word «Smother»

SMOTHER, verb. (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.

SMOTHER, verb. (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes.

SMOTHER, verb. (transitive) 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. (transitive) In cookery: to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions.

SMOTHER, verb. (transitive) To daub or smear.

SMOTHER, verb. (intransitive) To be suffocated.

SMOTHER, verb. (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.

SMOTHER, verb. (intransitive) Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.

SMOTHER, verb. (intransitive) Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.

SMOTHER, verb. (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball

SMOTHER, verb. (Australian rules football) 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, noun. That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly

SMOTHER, noun. Smoldering; slow combustion

SMOTHER, noun. Cookware used in such cooking

SMOTHER, noun. The state of being stifled; suppression.

SMOTHER, noun. Stifling smoke; thick dust.

SMOTHER, noun. (Australian rules football) The act of smothering a kick (see above).

SMOTHER CROP, noun. A kind of cover crop planted near a primary crop in order to prevent the growth of weeds in that area.

SMOTHER CROPS, noun. Plural of smother crop

SMOTHER, noun. A confused multitude of things.

SMOTHER, noun. A stifling cloud of smoke.

SMOTHER, verb. Envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy".

SMOTHER, verb. 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".

SMOTHER, verb. Conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn".

SMOTHER, verb. Form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake".

SMOTHER, verb. Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires".