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Yes, smother is playable

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"Smother" Definition

noun

Something, such as a dense cloud of smoke or dust, that smothers or tends to smother.
Thick stifling smoke or smudge.
A state of being stifled or suppressed.
A dense cloud (as of fog or dust).
A confused multitude of things.

verb-intransitive

To be concealed or suppressed.
To be extinguished.
To be surfeited with an emotion.
To suffocate.

verb-transitive

To conceal, suppress, or hide: Management smothered the true facts of the case. We smothered our indignation and pressed onward.
To cover thickly: smother chicken in sauce.
To deprive (a fire) of the oxygen necessary for combustion.
To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone): The grandparents smothered the child with affection.
To suffocate (another).

verb

To be overcome or killed through or as if through lack of air.
To overcome or kill with smoke or fumes.
To kill by depriving of air.
To overcome or discomfit through or as if through lack of air.
To suppress (a fire) by excluding oxygen.

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