Smotheration vs. Smother

Difference Between Smotheration and Smother

Smotherationnoun

Suffocation.

Smotherverb

(transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.

Smotherationnoun

A sailors' dish of meat buried in potatoes.

Smotherverb

(transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.

to smother a fire with ashes

Smotherverb

(transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish

The committee's report was smothered.

Smotherverb

(transitive) In cookery: to cook in a close dish.

beefsteak smothered with onions

Smotherverb

(transitive) To daub or smear.

Smotherverb

(intransitive) To be suffocated.

Smotherverb

(intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.

Smotherverb

to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.

Smotherverb

to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.

Smotherverb

(soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.

Smotherverb

(Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.