1. Held in check with difficulty
   "a smothered cough";
   - stifled, strangled, suppressed
    
2. Completely covered
   "bonnets smothered with flowers"; "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy"

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"

See also: covered, inhibited, put

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

Encyclopedia: Smothered, Covered & Chunked