Smother

smuth′ėr, v.t. to suffocate by excluding the air: to conceal.— v.i. to be suffocated or suppre ed: to smoulder.— n. smoke: thick floating dust: state of being smothered: confusion.— ns. Smotherā′tion , suffocation: a sailor's dish of meat buried in potatoes; Smoth′erine .— adv. Smoth′eringly .— adj. Smoth′ery , tending to smother: stifling. [M. E. smorther —A.S. smorian , to smother; cf. Ger. schmoren , to stew.]