Synonyms:
smother, surround
Meaning: envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
Synonyms:
smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
Meaning: conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
Usage examples
It would absorb and smother them if it could.
If there was a fire, this rain would smother it.
"Silver, sir," returned the captain; "he's as anxious as you and I to smother things up.
He seemed suddenly to shrink together and broke into rapid, short sobs, which he tried at first to smother, but at last he sobbed aloud.
This hand of the past reaches up into the present to smother the rising flame of modern ideals, to reforge our chains when we have broken them, to arrest progress.
For a moment Lanyard was able to accomplish no more than to smother resistance in a rib-crushing embrace; no sooner did he relax it than all attempts to shift his hold were anticipated and met half way, forcing him back upon the defensive.
I begged that she would allow me to kiss her hand, and she did not say yes, but when I took it and pressed my lips on it, she did not oppose any resistance; I had the courage to smother my ardent desires, and the kiss I imprinted on her lovely hand was a mixture of tenderness, respect, and admiration.