1. Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
   "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow";
   - asphyxiate, suffocate
    
2. Envelop completely
   "smother the meat in gravy";
   - surround
    
3. Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
   "smother fires";
   - put out
    
4. Suppress in order to conceal or hide
   "smother a yawn";
   - stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
    
5. Form an impenetrable cover over
   "the butter cream smothered the cake"

1. A stifling cloud of smoke
   "A smother of smoke from the forest fire obscured visibility"
    
2. A confused multitude of things
   "The attic was a smother of old furniture and boxes";
   - clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, scramble

Derived forms: smothered, smothering, smothers

See also: put

Type of: bottle up, cover, disorder, disorderliness, extinguish, fume, inhibit, kill, smoke, snuff out [informal], spread over, suppress

Encyclopedia: Smother