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.
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.
To be suffocated or stifled.
Stifling smoke; thick dust.
That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude of things.
a stifling cloud of smoke
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"
deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"