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 Smoth·er, n.
 1. Stifling smoke; thick dust.
 2. A state of suppression. [Obs.]
    Not to keep their suspicions in smother.   --Bacon.
 3. That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude of things.
    Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm.    --The Century.
 Smother fly Zool., an aphid.
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