Smother is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SMOTHER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to prevent from breathing
• kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate
• make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective manner towards them
• extinguish (a fire) by covering it
• suppress (a feeling or action)
• (in sport) stop the motion of (the ball or a shot)
• cover someone or something entirely with
• cook in a covered container
• suffocate or stifle
• 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.
• 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.
• Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one\'s displeasure.
• To be suffocated or stifled.
• To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
• Stifling smoke; thick dust.
• A state of suppression.
• envelop completely
• deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
• conceal or hide
• form an impenetrable cover over
• deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
NOUN:
• a mass of something that stifles or obscures
• a confused multitude of things
• a stifling cloud of smoke
• anything, such as a cloud of smoke, that stifles

Words related to SMOTHER

smothered15 smotherer14 smotherers15 smothering16 smotheringly21 smotherings17 smothers13 smothery16

Words that contain SMOTHER

smothers13 smothery16 smothered15 smotherer14 smotherers15 smothering16 smotherier15 smotherings17 smotheriest16 smotheriness17 smotheringly21 unsmotherable20 smotherinesses19

How to use SMOTHER in a sentence

• Still holding the child tightly, she bravely entered the dense smother, stooping as low as she dared.
• At the same time, a deafening noise is commenced with musical instruments, and every one begins to shout and sing, in order to smother the howling of the poor woman.
• If I had a heavy and hot fire, would shovel dirt into the fire and smother it out.
• Awake, O Gratitude! nor let the tears Of selfish Sorrow smother up thy voice, When it should speak of a departed friend.
• Study consoled him, though it could not smother the memories of so many tender hours spent with Adelaide.
• Not a gardener who would smother new shoots with a lot of dead things telling how shoots should go.
• I was always a little afraid if I tried his patience too much he would fall on me suddenly and smother me.
• Her conscience might be called upon to smother much more before the adventure was ended.
• Down with the traitor and the counter-revolutionists! They want to smother the Revolution.
• This is accomplished by constantly cutting off the young shoots as soon as they appear above the soil, or by growing some crop that will smother them.
• They at least are not ashamed of their construction, or, at any rate, they are not allowed to smother it in beauty at thirty shillings a foot.
• All gave way at last in a smother of foam, racing logs, bobbing black heads and confusion indescribable.
• He did not desire as he had desired so often to snatch her to him, to crush her in his arms, to smother her with kisses, to master her.
• Man being by nature a contradictory animal, the attitude assumed by his mother and cousin towards the woman who was to be his wife had seemed to fan rather than smother the flame.
• This made the boy furious but he could do nothing as the goat was heavy, and with his weight on his chest he thought he would smother.
• Muff was out of the question for he would smother in that box.
• As if a mirror had reflected the scene, I saw myself standing by the bedside, with the pillow that was to smother the sleeper in my hands.
• Bertram, however, was accustomed to wrestle with his love, and smother the expression of his pain, under the appearance of quiet composure.
• Several times I mentally framed replies only to smother them, for I was the stranger within her gates, and if she saw fit to offend a guest she was still within her rights.
• Into the fumes and smother, half a dozen men fought their way.
• Then cover closely and smother in this way until you wish to serve.
• Passengers crowded to the rails, straining their eyes into the dense smother, while whistles were blowing on all sides.
• This really was the last effort of sails, for steamers were on the seas, and the Americans were actually making heroic efforts to smother them with canvas.
• The fire was taking hold and the smoke had begun to smother him.
• My silent son-in-law looks as if he longed to smother me, and my attention is naturally distracted.

Similar words containing SMOTH without suffix er

smothers13 smothery16 smothered15 smotherer14 smotherers15 smothering16 smotherier15 cosmotheism20 cosmothetic20 smotherings17 thesmothete19 smotheriest16 cosmotheisms21 smotheriness17 smotheringly21 thesmothetes20 cosmothetical22 unsmotherable20 smotherinesses19

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