smother
IPA: smˈʌðɝ
noun
- That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
- Smoldering; slow combustion.
- Cookware used in such cooking.
- (dated) The state of being stifled; suppression.
- (dated) Stifling smoke; thick dust.
- (Australian rules football) The act of smothering a kick (see verb section).
verb
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (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.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
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Examples of "smother" in Sentences
- He tries to smother the boy in the jungle.
- On the wedding night, Crystal will smother Hef.
- The mother accused of trying to smother her baby.
- Gonzales smothered the deadman to unconsciousness.
- The kid suffered suffocation by smothering the fire.
- Another method is to smother the plant with tarpaulin.
- At the end of the film, the sole survivor is smothered by the bread.
- As well the lock on a colt is a smother than the lock of a remington.
- Well? "rejoined Byng, quietly, yet with a kind of smother in the tone.
- Endeavor to denounce the Beatles, the Smothers Brothers and Jane Fonda.
- The cause of Danielle's death was very likely suffocation or smothering.
- However, friends say the pop star is determined not to "smother" Mercy with attention.
- Amy, I know I am blessed to have a mother in my life, but I don't want a "smother," I want a mother!
- Survey the stock of pea-sticks, haul out all the rubbish from the yard, and make a 'smother' of waste prunings and heaps of twitch and other stuff for which there is no decided use.
- Aucamp said the decision was in contrast to one taken by the ANC's parliamentary caucus, which had abused its majority to "smother" the allegations against Yengeni in the ethics committee.
- From that time, she worked with all her might to "smother" her rival, enlisting the services of influential friends to persuade the managers not to give Christine an opportunity for a fresh triumph.
- Here were plenty of smoke, plenty of "smother," and a few flames in the corner, but no one knew what might be the end of the business, and we were all prepared to march on to the breezy Parade should the fire gain too much sway over the premises.
- Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity.
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