Crossword-Solution: SMOTHER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Smother | v. t. | To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. |
| Smother | v. t. | To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire. |
| Smother | v. t. | Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure. |
| Smother | v. i. | To be suffocated or stifled. |
| Smother | v. i. | To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder. |
| Smother | v. t. | Stifling smoke; thick dust. |
| Smother | v. t. | A state of suppression. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SMOTHER | anagram | MOTHERS, THERMOS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with SMOTHER (5)
The warden’s clock ticked, the young convict’s pen scratched busily in the big book, and his sharp shoulders were shaken every few seconds by a loose cough which he tried to smother.
The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town’s life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.
But Phœbe, in order to keep the universe in its old place, was fain to smother, in some degree, her own intuitions as to Judge Pyncheon’s character.
They say that for over ten minutes hardly anything was to be seen of the ship--just the three masts and a bit of the forecastle head and of the poop all awash driving along in a smother of foam.
Sweet Madonna, maiden mother, Thou hast saved him, and no other; Now the tears I cannot smother, Tears of joy my vision blind; Where thou sittest I am gazing, These glad, misty eyes upraising, I have pray'd, and I am praising, Bless thee! bless thee! virgin kind.
Quotes with SMOTHER (3)
If water won't smother the blaze Father, take my tears and bestow them on the firesee if the fires will wither.
I gave her the world, the moon, the sun, the stars, the planets... I gave her my breath, my voice, my sight, my life... I gave her memories, dreams, happiness... I gave her care and compassion... I gave her everything... and with sickly curved words, venom dripping from her fingers, she whispered in a way that would shatter glass... between her poisonous lips and her barbed teeth, she told me a story of blackness and catastrophe... from her mind a story of corruption and infa…
There is no solution for Europe other than deepening the democratic values it invented. It does not need a geographical extension, absurdly drawn out to the ends of the Earth; what it needs is an intensification of its soul, a condensation of its strengths. It is one of the rare places on this planet where something absolutely unprecedented is happening, without its people even knowing it, so much do they take miracles for granted. Beyond imprecation and apology, we have to e…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).