Usually means: Cover completely, inhibiting movement or growth.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. smother: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. smother: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smother: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. smother: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smother: Vocabulary.com
  6. Smother, smother: Wordnik
  7. smother: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. smother: Wiktionary
  9. smother: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. smother: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. smother: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. smother: Dictionary.com
  13. smother: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. smother: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Smother (album), Smother (disambiguation), Smother (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Smother: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. smother: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. smother: Rhymezone
  19. Smother: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. smother: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. smother: Free Dictionary
  22. smother: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. smother: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. smother: Legal dictionary

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  1. smother: Encyclopedia

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  2. smother: Medical dictionary

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  1. smother: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. smother, smother: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Smother: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. smother: Golfer's Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
verb:  (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
verb:  (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
verb:  (transitive) To daub or smear.
verb:  (intransitive) To be suffocated.
verb:  (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
verb:  (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
verb:  (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
verb:  (Australian rules football) To 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.
verb:  (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
noun:  That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
noun:  Smoldering; slow combustion.
noun:  Cookware used in such cooking.
noun:  (dated) The state of being stifled; suppression.
noun:  (dated) Stifling smoke; thick dust.
noun:  (Australian rules football) The act of smothering a kick (see verb section).

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