Synonyms of the word

smother

• v. (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or…
• v. (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
• v. (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle;…
• v. (transitive) In cookery: to cook in a close dish.
• v. (transitive) To daub or smear.
• v. (intransitive) To be suffocated.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping,…
• v. (intransitive) Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
• v. (intransitive) Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled;…
• v. (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
• v. (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When…
• n. That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly.

asphyxiate

• v. (transitive) To smother or suffocate someone.
• v. (intransitive) To be smothered or suffocated.

clutter

• n. (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
• n. (uncountable) Background echos, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
• n. (countable) A group of cats; the collective noun for cats.
• n. (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
• v. To fill something with clutter.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
• v. To make a confused noise; to bustle.

conquer

• v. To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
• v. To overcome an abstract obstacle.
• v. To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
• v. To acquire by force of arms, win in war.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

disorder

• n. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
• n. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
• n. (medicine, countable) A physical or psychical malfunction.
• v. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
• v. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

disorderliness

• n. The state or quality of being disorderly.

extinguish

• v. (transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.
• v. (transitive) to destroy or abolish something.
• v. (transitive) to obscure or eclipse something.
• v. (transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex.
• v. (transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction.

fuddle

• v. To confuse or befuddle.
• v. To intoxicate.
• n. Intoxication.
• n. Muddle, confusion.
• n. (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring…

fume

• n. A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed…
• n. A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid…
• n. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
• n. Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
• n. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
• v. To emit fumes.
• v. To expose something (especially wood) to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.
• v. To feel or express great anger.
• v. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
• v. To pass off in fumes or vapours.

inhibit

• v. to hinder; to restrain.

jumble

• v. (transitive) to mix or confuse.
• v. (intransitive) to meet or unite in a confused way.
• n. A mixture of unrelated things.
• n. (Britain) Items for a rummage sale.
• n. (archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

muddle

• v. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
• v. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
• v. To dabble in mud.
• v. To make turbid or muddy.
• v. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
• v. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
• v. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
• n. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

muffle

• n. Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
• n. A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
• n. (slang, archaic) A boxing glove.
• n. A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace).
• n. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often…
• v. (transitive) To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
• v. (transitive) To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
• v. (transitive, dated) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold;…

repress

• v. To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
• v. Hence, to check; to keep back.
• v. To press again.
• n. A record pressed again; a repressing.

smoke

• n. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.).
• n. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of…
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory,…
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke…
• n. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
• n. (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield…
• n. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
• v. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
• v. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
• v. (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
• v. (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.
• v. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
• v. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
• v. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
• v. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
• v. To suffer severely; to be punished.
• v. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
• adj. Of the colour known as smoke.
• adj. Made of or with smoke.

stifle

• n. A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
• n. (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt or cut off.
• v. (transitive) To repress, keep in or hold back.
• v. (transitive) To smother or suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To feel smothered etc.
• v. (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
• v. (transitive) To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

strangle

• v. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate…
• v. (transitive) To stifle or suppress an action.
• v. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
• v. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

subdue

• v. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
• v. To bring (a country) under control by force.

suffocate

• v. (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
• v. (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
• v. (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen…
• v. (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
• adj. (obsolete) Suffocated; choked.

suppress

• v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
• v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
• v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
• v. To prevent publication.
• v. To stop a flow or stream.
• v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
• v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
• v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

surround

• v. (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
• n. (Britain) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

welter

• n. A general confusion or muddle.
• v. (intransitive) To roll around; to wallow.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To revel, luxuriate.
• v. (intransitive) (of waves, billows) To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
• adj. Heavyweight (of horsemen).
• v. To wither; to wilt.