smother

To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.

To be suffocated.

To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.

To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish

(figurative) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.

To daub or smear.

To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.

To cook in a close dish.

To get in the way of a kick of the ball.

To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.

To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.

to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.

That which smothers or appears to smother.

(old-fashioned) Stifling smoke; thick dust.

(old-fashioned) The state of being stifled; suppression.

The act of smothering a kick (see verb section).

Smoldering; slow combustion.

Cookware used in such cooking.