smothered

smoth·er  (smr)

v. smoth·ered, smoth·er·ing, smoth·ers

v.tr.

1.

a. To suffocate (another).

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

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

3. To cover thickly: smother chicken in sauce.

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

v.intr.

1.

a. To suffocate.

b. To be extinguished.

2. To be concealed or suppressed.

3. To be surfeited with an emotion.

n.

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

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[Middle English smotheren, from smorther, dense smoke; see smolder.]

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	smothered - held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" stifled, strangled, suppressed inhibited - held back or restrained or prevented; "in certain conditions previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear"
	2.	smothered - completely covered; "bonnets smothered with flowers"; "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy" covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"