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SMOTHER, v.t. [allied perhaps to smoke.]

1. To suffocate of extinguish life by causing smoke or dust to enter the lungs; to stifle.

2. To suffocate or extinguish by closely covering, and be the exclustion of air; as, to smother a child in bed.

3. To suppress; to stifle; as, to smother the light of the understanding.

SMOTHER, n.

1. Smoke; thick dust.

2. A state of suppression. [Not in use.]
1913 Definition
Smother (smother)
v. t.(?)
Smoth"er
[imp. *** p. p. Smothered (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Smothering.] [OE. smotheren] akin to E. smoor. See Smoor.]
  1. 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. 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. Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
  4. To be suffocated or stifled.
  5. To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
  6. Stifling smoke; thick dust.
    Shak.
  7. A state of suppression.
    [Obs.]

    Not to keep their suspicions in smother. Bacon.

    Smother fly (Zoöl.), an aphid.

  8. That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude of things.

    Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm. The Century.


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