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| 1. | to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing. |
| 2. | to extinguish or deaden (fire, coals, etc.) by covering so as to exclude air. |
| 3. | to cover closely or thickly; envelop: to smother a steak with mushrooms. |
| 4. | to suppress or repress: to smother feelings. |
| 5. | Cookery. to steam (food) slowly in a heavy, tightly closed vessel with a minimum of liquid: smothered chicken and onions. |
| 6. | to become stifled or suffocated; be prevented from breathing. |
| 7. | to be stifled; be suppressed or concealed. |
| 8. | dense, stifling smoke. |
| 9. | a smoking or smoldering state, as of burning matter. |
| 10. | dust, fog, spray, etc., in a dense or enveloping cloud. |
| 11. | an overspreading profusion of anything: a smother of papers. |
