smother

smother is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
2. transitive verb. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.
3. transitive verb. Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
4. intransitive verb. To be suffocated or stifled.
5. intransitive verb. To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
6. transitive verb. Stifling smoke; thick dust.
7. transitive verb. A state of suppression.
8. noun. a stifling cloud of smoke
9. noun. a confused multitude of things

   Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, muddle, welter

10. verb. conceal or hide

    "smother a yawn"

    "muffle one's anger"

    Synonyms: muffle, repress, stifle, strangle

11. verb. envelop completely

    "smother the meat in gravy"

    Synonyms: surround

12. verb. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion

    "smother fires"

13. verb. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing

    "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"

    "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

    Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate

14. verb. form an impenetrable cover over

    "the butter cream smothered the cake"

Synonyms

clutter, fuddle, jumble, muddle, welter, muffle, repress, stifle, strangle, surround, asphyxiate, suffocate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in smother:

mothers, thermos

Common word forms

smothers, smothered, smotherer, smothering, smotherable

Words from these letters

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