smotherer

transitive verb

1. 1. to keep from getting enough air to breathe; stifle
   2. to kill in this way; suffocate
2. to cover (a fire), excluding air from it and causing it to smolder or die down
3. to cover over thickly: liver smothered in onions
4. to hide or suppress by or as by covering; stifle: to smother a yawn

intransitive verb

1. 1. to be kept from getting enough air to breathe
   2. to die in this way; be suffocated
2. to be hidden, stifled, or suppressed

noun

1. dense, suffocating smoke or any thick cloud of dust, steam, fog, etc.
2. a confused turmoil; welter
3. Archaic a smoldering fire
4. Archaic a smoldering state or condition