- smoth´er|er
- smoth|er «SMUHTH uhr», verb, noun.–v.t.1. to make unable to get air; kill by depriving of air; suffocate: »
The gas almost smothered the coal miners but they got out in time.
2. to cover thickly: »In the fall the grass is smothered with leaves.
3. to deaden or put out by covering thickly: »The fire is smothered by ashes.
4. Figurative. a) to keep back; check; suppress: »to smother one's fears, to smother a committee's report. I smothered a sharp reply.
b) to cover up; conceal: »He smothered a yawn behind his hand.
5. to cook in a covered pot or baking dish: »smothered chicken.
–v.i.1. to be unable to breathe freely; suffocate: »We are smothering in this stuffy room. The miners almost smothered when the shaft collapsed.
2. Figurative. to be suppressed, concealed, or stifled.3. Dialect. to smolder; burn slowly.╂[Middle English smortheren suffocate with smoke < smorther smother, noun]–n.1. a cloud of dust, smoke, spray, or the like: »The distant building rose above the smother of traffic and industrial smog.
2. anything that smothers or appears to smother.4. the condition of being smothered.5. a smoking or smoldering condition.╂[Middle English smorther, noun < Old English smorian to suffocate]–smoth´er|er, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
