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• (of food) cooked in a covered container.

• "smothered fried chicken"

• kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate.

• "I dreamt a stranger was trying to kill me by smothering me with a pillow"

Similar: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke, throttle, strangle, strangulate,

• extinguish (a fire) by covering it.

• "use a fire blanket to smother a chip-pan fire"

Similar: extinguish, put out, snuff out, dampen, damp down, stamp out, douse, choke,

• cover someone or something entirely with.

• "rich orange sorbets smothered in fluffy whipped cream"

Similar: smear, daub, bedaub, spread, cover, besmear,

Origin: Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘stifling smoke’): from the base of Old English smorian ‘suffocate’.