smother : अर्थ और परिभाषाएं

To suffocate (another).

To deprive (a fire) of the oxygen necessary for combustion.

To conceal, suppress, or hide: Management smothered the true facts of the case. We smothered our indignation and pressed onward.

To cover thickly: smother chicken in sauce.

To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone): The grandparents smothered the child with affection.

To suffocate.

To be extinguished.

To be concealed or suppressed.

To be surfeited with an emotion.

Something, such as a dense cloud of smoke or dust, that smothers or tends to smother.