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

Etymology: ME smorthren < smorther, dense smoke < base of OE smorian, to suffocate, akin to MLowG smoren, to smoke < var. of IE base *smel- > smell

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