Word Meanings - SMOTHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. 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. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick

Additional info about word: SMOTHER

Etym: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SMOTHER)

• Burke
• Stifle
• shelve
• strangle
• smother
• Choke
• Throttle
• gag
• burke
• suffocate
• stifle
• Dissemble
• Disguise
• conceal
• repress
• restrain
• cloke
• Suppress
• Overpower
• extinguish
• check
• subdue
• quell
• era h
• destroy
• hu n
• stop

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SMOTHER)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet

Related words: (words related to SMOTHER)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. 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. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• CLOKE
  See CLOAK
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CHOKECHERRY
  The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• SUFFOCATE
  Suffocated; choked. Shak.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• THROTTLE
  The throttle valve. Throttle lever , the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. -- Throttle valve , a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• STRANGLE HOLD
  In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• TALLOW-FACED
  Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
• ARTICHOKE
  word as carciofo; cf. older spellings archiciocco, archicioffo, carciocco, and Sp. alcachofa, Pg. alcachofra; prob. fr. Ar. al- 1. The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The