S: (v) smother, surround (envelop completely) "smother the meat in gravy"
S: (v) smother, asphyxiate, suffocate (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"
S: (v) smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress (suppress in order to conceal or hide) "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a laugh"; "repress a cry of fear"
S: (v) smother (form an impenetrable cover over) "the butter cream smothered the cake"
S: (v) smother, put out (deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion) "smother fires"
S: (v) snuff out, extinguish (put an end to; kill) "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
S: (v) extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with (terminate, end, or take out) "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
S: (v) destroy, destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of) "The fire destroyed the house"