Definitions
1.verbTo suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
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.verbIn cookery: to cook in a close dish."beefsteak smothered with onions"
5.verbTo daub or smear.
6.verbTo be suffocated.
7.verbTo breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
8.verb(of a fire) to 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.