smother:1
verbcirca 1520{ds|i|||}
- to kill by depriving of air
- to suppress (a fire) by excluding oxygen
- to overcome or discomfit through or as if through lack of air
smother:2
noun
smother
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13th century{ds||1|a|}
- thick stifling smoke or smudge
- a state of being stifled or suppressed
- a dense cloud (as of fog or dust)
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