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1. Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
   "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"
   - suffocating, suffocative

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

See also: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic, smotherer

Type of: conquer, cover, curb, extinguish, inhibit, kill, snuff out, spread over, stamp down, subdue, suppress

Encyclopedia: Smother