smoor

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/smʊə(ɹ)/

verb

To suffocate, smother, or extinguish

“smoor the fire”

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Meanings

verbsmoor (third-person singular simple present smoors, present participle smooring, simple past and past participle smoored)

present singular third person smoors · participle present smooring · participle past smoored · past smoored · alternative smore

  1. ScotlandobsoletetransitiveTo suffocate, smother, or extinguish

    smoor the fire

    2 more examples

    The death o' devils smoor'd wi' brimstone reek

    1786, Robert Burns, The Brigs of Ayr

    Then she smoored the fire, stretched herself on the big bed with a strange motion, and lay there in the darkness for a long time without sleeping—her body moving discontentedly.

    1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book II (The Queen of Air and Darkness)

Origin

From Old English smorian, akin to Dutch and Low German smoren, German schmoren (“to stew”). Compare smother.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with smoor

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Anagrams

moorsmoros
Cite this entry
APA

smoor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoor

MLA

“smoor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoor. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smoor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoor.

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