smother

Noun

• a stifling cloud of smoke

• a confused multitude of things

Verb

• deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
  • smother fires
    

• form an impenetrable cover over
  • the butter cream smothered the cake
    

• conceal or hide
  • smother a yawn
    
  • muffle one's anger
    
  • strangle a yawn
    

• 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
    

• envelop completely
  • smother the meat in gravy
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  clutter , jumble , muddle , fuddle , mare's nest , welter , put out , stifle , strangle , muffle , repress , asphyxiate , suffocate , surround