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Words related to smother

Related / Similar Words: clutter, jumble, muddle, mare's nest, welter, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress, surround, put out, asphyxiate, suffocate

Definition:

a stifling cloud of smoke;

a confused multitude of things;

conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one''s anger"; "strangle a yawn";

envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy";

deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires";

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";

form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake";

Hyponyms: rummage

Grouped Verbs: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate

Entailments: cover

Derivational Morphology: addle, muddle, puddle, scramble, jumble, throw together, confuse, mix up, mingle, clutter, clutter up, stifler, smotherer, suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling, suffocation, asphyxiation, asphyxia

Anagrams: thermos

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