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verb

Smother v. t. (past & past part. smothered; pres. part. smothering)

1.

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.

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.

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

Smother v. i.

1.

To be suffocated or stifled.

2.

To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.

noun

Smother n.

1.

Stifling smoke; thick dust.

2.

A state of suppression. (Obs.) "Not to keep their suspicions in smother."

3.

That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude of things. "Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm."

Smother fly (Zool.), an aphid.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smother" Quotes from Famous Books

... edgeways between them. As for the smell; well, sir, I think you'd prefer that of a gas main just opened, or the foulest scent you could think of, to what we all smelt in the hold of that there dhow; for it seemed to smother us and make the strongest men aboard turn faint just like a girl does when she cuts her finger ...

— The Penang Pirate - and, The Lost Pinnace • John Conroy Hutcheson

... her wool-soft paps I seal sweet kisses which do batten love, And doubling them do treble my good haps. 'Tis neither love the son, nor love the mother, Which lovers praise and pray to; but that love is Which she in eye and I in heart do smother. Then muse not though I glory in my miss, Since she who holds my heart and me in durance, Hath life, death, love and all in ...

— Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Phillis - Licia • Thomas Lodge and Giles Fletcher

... my amorous kinsman much longer staid, The perfume would have seal'd his obit; For he had a nicer nose than the wench, Who cared not a pin for the smother and stench, In the arms of the ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

... the pan, choking in the smother of smoke. She came right-about face swiftly enough. The man had not ...

— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

... my honorable friend, the Chairman of the Committee. He has made the land ring with his cry of universal suffrage and universal amnesty. Suffrage and amnesty to whom? To those who sought to smother the government in the blood of its noblest citizens, to those who ruined the happy homes and broke the faithful hearts of which I spoke. Sir, I am not condemning his cry. I am not opposing his policy. I have no more thirst for vengeance than he, and ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

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