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smother

English

  1. 🔊 a stifling cloud of smoke
  2. 🔊 a confused multitude of things
  3. 🔊 suppress in order to conceal or hide
    “smother a yawn”
  4. 🔊 envelop completely
    “smother the meat in gravy”
  5. 🔊 deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
    “smother fires”
  6. 🔊 deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
    “Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow”
  7. 🔊 form an impenetrable cover over
    “the butter cream smothered the cake”

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