Antonyms for smother
ˈsmʌð ərsmoth·er

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1. smother

   Antonyms:
   blaze, brand, burn, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, set on fire, singe

   Synonyms:
   cool, extinguish, put out, stifle, subdue

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. smother

   Antonyms:
   fan, ventilate, foster, cherish, nurture, publish, promulgate, divulge, spread, excite, vent

   Synonyms:
   suffocate, stifle, repress, gag, conceal, suppress, choke, strangle, allay, swallow

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Disorderliness
   • Extinguish
   • Kill

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smothernoun

   a confused multitude of things

   Synonyms:
   hole, jam, fuddle, jumbal, clutter, mare's nest, muddle, mess, patchwork, hodgepodge, pickle, fix, jumble, kettle of fish, welter

2. smotherverb

   a stifling cloud of smoke

   Synonyms:
   fuddle, jumble, clutter, mare's nest, welter, muddle

3. smother, surroundverb

   envelop completely

   "smother the meat in gravy"

   Synonyms:
   fence, muffle, surround, palisade, stifle, asphyxiate, skirt, circumvent, wall, repress, border, put out, fence in, besiege, suffocate, ring, strangle, beleaguer, hem in, environ

4. smother, asphyxiate, suffocateverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   choke, stifle, suffocate, asphyxiate, put out, strangle, repress, surround, muffle, gag

5. smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repressverb

   conceal or hide

   "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

   Synonyms:
   keep down, cramp, muffle, surround, quash, halter, suppress, asphyxiate, subjugate, gag, mute, strangulate, throttle, reduce, hamper, repress, put out, damp, suffocate, dull, choke, stifle, dampen, tone down, strangle, subdue

6. smotherverb

   form an impenetrable cover over

   "the butter cream smothered the cake"

   Synonyms:
   stifle, suffocate, asphyxiate, put out, strangle, repress, surround, muffle

7. smother, put outverb

   deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion

   "smother fires"

   Synonyms:
   discommode, muffle, surround, anesthetise, asphyxiate, anaesthetize, issue, inconvenience, anesthetize, hold out, retire, exsert, put under, repress, release, stretch out, put out, bother, extend, incommode, disoblige, suffocate, publish, stifle, trouble, douse, bring out, stretch forth, strangle, anaesthetise

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1. smotherverb

   Synonyms:
   suffocate, stifle, extinguish, repress, suppress, smolder

How to use smother in a sentence?

1. Joshua Crosier:

   crime is like a fire you must smother it before it gets out of hand

2. Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia:

   Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

3. Leonard Hand:

   Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.

4. The Omani shed:

   When you want something desperately, you smother the chance for it to come to you. Relax; focus on life as it is in the here and now, then all will come to you before you know it!

5. Ted Cruz:

   My approach, much to the frustration of media, is to bear hug both of them and smother them with love, i believe that gravity will bring both of those candidates down. I think the lion share of their supporters will come to us.

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