Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to smother
Participle: smothered
Gerund: smothering
Indicative
Present
| I | smother |
| you | smother |
| he;she;it | smothers |
| we | smother |
| you | smother |
| they | smother |
Perfect
| I | have smothered |
| you | have smothered |
| he;she;it | has smothered |
| we | have smothered |
| you | have smothered |
| they | have smothered |
Past
| I | smothered |
| you | smothered |
| he;she;it | smothered |
| we | smothered |
| you | smothered |
| they | smothered |
Pluperfect
| I | had smothered |
| you | had smothered |
| he;she;it | had smothered |
| we | had smothered |
| you | had smothered |
| they | had smothered |
Future
| I | will smother |
| you | will smother |
| he;she;it | will smother |
| we | will smother |
| you | will smother |
| they | will smother |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smothered |
| you | will have smothered |
| he;she;it | will have smothered |
| we | will have smothered |
| you | will have smothered |
| they | will have smothered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | smother |
| you | smother |
| he;she;it | smother |
| we | smother |
| you | smother |
| they | smother |
Perfect
| I | have smothered |
| you | have smothered |
| he;she;it | have smothered |
| we | have smothered |
| you | have smothered |
| they | have smothered |
Imperfect
| I | smothered |
| you | smothered |
| he;she;it | smothered |
| we | smothered |
| you | smothered |
| they | smothered |
Pluperfect
| I | had smothered |
| you | had smothered |
| he;she;it | had smothered |
| we | had smothered |
| you | had smothered |
| they | had smothered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would smother |
| you | would smother |
| he;she;it | would smother |
| we | would smother |
| you | would smother |
| they | would smother |
Perfect
| I | would have smothered |
| you | would have smothered |
| he;she;it | would have smothered |
| we | would have smothered |
| you | would have smothered |
| they | would have smothered |
Imperative
| you | smother |
| we | Let's smother |
| you | smother |
Verbs conjugated like 'smother'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'smother'
mother,
soother,
bother,
brother,
fother,
frother,
mismother,
mither,
moither,
myther,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Antonyms
- To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity.
- enliven
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English smothren, smortheren, alteration (due to smother, smorther (“a suffocating vapour, dense smoke”, noun)) of Middle English smoren (“to smother”), from Old English smorian (“to smother, suffocate, choke”), from Proto-Germanic *smurōną (“to suffocate, strangle”), probably related to *smallijan (“to burn”) or Old English smoca (“smoke”).
2. Cognate with Middle Low German smoren, smurten (“to choke, suffocate”), West Flemish smoren (“to smoke, reek”), Dutch smoren (“to suffocate, smother", also "to stew, simmer”), German schmoren (“to stew, simmer, braise”). See: Middle English '
smoren', Old English '
smorian', Dutch '
smoren', German, old spelling '
schmoren'.
Verbs referencing "smother"
German, old spelling
schmoren.
Sample Sentences
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[...] to see, at every dinner, an unusual amount of poultry on the table; and at every supper, at least two mighty bowls of hot stewed oysters, in any one of which a half-grown Duke of Clarence might be smothered easily.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] know. The first he did know, she was walking by his side, erect and proud, in the dim gray of the dawn. To the gang, however, she was known; for there was much looking and turning of heads, and a smothered yet apparent exultation among the miserable, ragged, half-starved creatures by whom she was surrounded.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity ! What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone,—whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom !
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)