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— English words —

• smother v. (Transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
• smother v. (Transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
• smother v. (Transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish.
• smother v. (Transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
• smother v. (Transitive) To daub or smear.
• smother v. (Intransitive) To be suffocated.
• smother v. (Intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
• smother v. (Intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
• smother v. (Intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled;…
• smother v. (Soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
• smother v. (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When…
• smother v. (Boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent’s attack by one’s arm positioning.
• smother n. That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly.

— English words, defined in French —

• smother v. Étouffer.
• smother v. Étouffer, éteindre un feu.
• smother v. Étouffer, priver de parole, faire taire.
• smother v. (Cuisine) Cuire à l’étouffée.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• smother v. Sufocar.

97 English words from 13 English definitions

activity air appears arm attack Australian Australian␣rules away ball Boxing breathe burn by␣reason␣of close completely concealment cook cooking covering daub deaden decline degree development difficulty dish do␣away␣with dust excluding extinguish far feeble figuratively fire football for for␣want␣of get get␣in get␣in␣the␣way going great grow in␣the␣way in␣the␣way␣of Intransitive kick less like low more more␣or␣less obstruct of␣a of␣an one opponent otherwise overlaying particularly perish positioning prevent preventing reason reduce respiration rules slowly smear smoke smolder smother smothers Soccer someone something stifle stifled suffocate suffocated suppress suppression That the the␣way to␣burn Transitive very vigor want way When which with with␣great␣difficulty wrapping

5 English words from 5 foreign definitions

Cuisine étouffée faire feu parole

6 foreign words from 5 foreign definitions

Cuire éteindre Étouffer priver Sufocar taire

28 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

smother'd smothers smothery smothered smotherer smotherers smotherest smothereth smother-fly smothering Smotherman smotherable smothercate smother␣crop smotherings Smothermans smother␣mate smotheration smothercated smothercates smother␣crops smother-flies smotheriness smotheringly smotherations smothercating smothered␣mate smothered␣mates

16 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unsmothers mismothered osmotherapy unsmothered bonus␣mothers mismothering sismotherapy unsmothering osmotherapies seismotherapy unsmotherable elasmotheriine elasmotheriines osmotherapeutic seismotherapies black␣over␣Bill's␣mother's

9 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

mismother unsmother bonus␣mother and␣his␣mother she's␣the␣cat's␣mother she␣could␣be␣his␣mother everyone␣and␣his␣mother who's␣'she',␣the␣cat's␣mother everybody␣and␣his␣mother

18 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

her Her mot Mot MOT moth mother Mother moth-er oth OTH -oth o'th' other SMO smot the the-

9 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

oms OMs OMS reh tom Tom TOM toms Toms

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

mothers moth-ers thermos

28 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Emsworth Gohmerts Hedstrom Helstrom Homerist homester hurtsome isotherm moithers monthers mouthers resmooth rest␣home shomeret shoterim smoother smother'd smothers smothery stormeth teraohms tera-ohms theorems theorism The␣Storm thiomers Thomures thromdes

37 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Hersom hetros homers hom-set Hosmer hoster metros métros Morets mosher Mosher mother Mother moth-er motser others rehost reshot re-shot Roehms romset Rothes shomer shorte short␣e shoter Stoehr storme Strohm Strome thermo- therms Thomes throes Tomers tosher Tosher

3 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

smither Smither soother

3 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

mother Mother moth-er

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

smoother

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