Smother /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Smothered; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

1. To be suffocated or stifled.
2. To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.

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.