Definitions
1.VerbTo suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone."He smothered her by pressing his hand over her mouth."
2.VerbTo extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air."to smother a fire with ashes"
3.VerbTo reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish"The committee's report was smothered."
4.VerbTo cook in a close dish."beefsteak smothered with onions"
5.VerbTo daub or smear.
6.VerbTo be suffocated."She is smothered by the rope."
7.VerbTo breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
8.Verbto burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
9.Verbto perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
10.VerbTo get in the way of a kick of the ball.
11.VerbTo get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
12.VerbTo prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
13.NounThat which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
Smoldering; slow combustion.
Cookware used in such cooking.
The state of being stifled; suppression.
Stifling smoke; thick dust.
The act of smothering a kick (see verb section).
14.NounSmoldering; slow combustion.
15.NounCookware used in such cooking.
16.NounThe state of being stifled; suppression.
17.NounStifling smoke; thick dust.
18.NounThe act of smothering a kick (see verb section).