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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Moby Thesaurus

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