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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

smothered
    adj 1: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a
           stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed
           laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled,
           suppressed]
    2: completely covered; "bonnets smothered with flowers";
       "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Smother \Smoth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smothered; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Smothering.] [OE. smotheren; akin to E. smoor. See
   Smoor.]
   1. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public
      view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's
      displeasure.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Smothered:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

arcane, bated, cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, crushed, cryptic, damped, dampened, dark, dead, deadened, dull, dulled, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, latent, muffled, muted, mysterious, occult, quashed, quelled, repressed, restricted, secret, smashed, softened, sordo, squashed, squelched, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, top secret, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable

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