Past tense of smother
regular verb
The past tense of smother is smothered. The past participle is also smothered.
Forms of smother
| Base form (V1) | smother /ˈsməðər/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | smothered |
| Past participle (V3) | smothered |
| Present participle | smothering |
| Third person singular | smothers |
Smothered in a sentence
- He smothered her by pressing his hand over her mouth.
- The committee's report was smothered.
- This calamity morphed into a mud flow kilometers long that smothered a village.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry mud flow
- “The first one had her throat cut and the second one was smothered by a pillow.2017 November, Neil Port, The Enemy Within, Newcastle, Australia, pages 19, 284, 407. From the entry šâh
- Dafydd rides alongside, smothered in his travelling cloak with a baggy cat-fur hat on his head.2015, Toby Clements, Winter Pilgrims, →ISBN, page 329. From the entry cat-fur
Meaning of smother
- verb To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- verb To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- verb To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish.
Questions about the past tense of smother
- What is the past tense of smother?
- The past tense of smother is smothered.
- What is the past participle of smother?
- The past participle of smother is smothered.
- Is smother a regular or irregular verb?
- Smother is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: smother (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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