Smother Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing. |
| 2. | to extinguish or deaden (fire, coals, etc.) by covering so as to exclude air. |
| 3. | to cover closely or thickly; envelop: to smother a steak with mushrooms. |
| 4. | to suppress or repress: to smother feelings. |
| 5. | Cookery. to steam (food) slowly in a heavy, tightly closed vessel with a minimum of liquid: smothered chicken and onions. |
–verb (used without object) | 6. | to become stifled or suffocated; be prevented from breathing. |
| 7. | to be stifled; be suppressed or concealed. |
–noun
| 9. | a smoking or smoldering state, as of burning matter. |
| 10. | dust, fog, spray, etc., in a dense or enveloping cloud. |
| 11. | an overspreading profusion of anything: a smother of papers. |
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Calendar Live - Found Sep. 29, 2008
A promising effort that doesn't cohere into anything more, 'Smother' never fully comes to life. -- Mark Olsen 'Smother.' MPAA rating: PG-13 for...
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'Smother,' with Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard
Los Angeles Times - Found Sep. 28, 2008
'Smother,' a fairly standard story of a young man (Dax Shepard) and his overbearing mother (Diane Keaton), treads a lot of the same ground as Albert
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Collider.com - Found Sep. 26, 2008
Diane Keaton would, over the course of a single year, take part in both 'Mama's Boy' and now 'Smother.' Perhaps she was poisoned by merciless...
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Mum innocent over baby smother charge
Tameside Advertiser - Found Oct. 8, 2008
A YOUNG mum accused of trying to smother her seven-month-old baby has walked free after a top judge directed a jury to find her not guilty.
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Smother attack woman found guilty
BBC - Found Sep. 5, 2008
A woman has been found guilty of attempted murder after encouraging her partner to smother his elderly mother to get a share of his inheritance.Leeds ...
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Woman, 82, fought off 'evil' son as he tried to smother her to get ...
Mail Online UK - Found Sep. 3, 2008
An elderly mother told a court how she had struggled to survive as her 'evil' son tried to smother her with pillows to get his hands on his
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WATCH THE TRAILER FOR 'SMOTHER'
IF Magazine.com - Found Sep. 16, 2008
SMOTHER (yes, that's MOTHER with an S), stars Dax Shepard as a man with an overbearing mother (Keaton) and a wife who wants a baby (Tyler).
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Mother charged: 'Tried to smother kids'
Daily Telegraph Australia - Found Sep. 10, 2008
It is alleged she then tried to smother the baby and the three-year-old with a pillow.
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Woman accused of trying to smother kids
Daily Telegraph Australia - Found Sep. 10, 2008
It is alleged she then tried to smother the baby and the three-year-old with a pillow.
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Woman, 82, fought off 'evil' son as he tried to smother her to get ...
Evening Standard - Found Sep. 3, 2008
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