The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SMOTHER which also is the latest solution we found used in Chronicle of Higher Education in 2004.
Cover thickly crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMOTHER | 50 % | 7 |
| PAVE | 25 % | 4 |
| COAT | 25 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cover thickly
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- smother
- blanket
- cloak
- drape
- draping
- drapery
- burlap
- clad
- open book
- drapes
- list
- sheet
Crossword Answer definitions
SMOTHER verb- To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- In cookery: to cook in a close dish.
- To daub or smear.
- To be suffocated.
- To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- To perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- 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.
- That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SMOTHER
- Cover thickly
- Top thickly
- Pay way too much attention to
- Put out a fire, one way
- Overwhelm
- Cover thickly, as with onions
- Cover completely
- Extinguish, as coals
- Cover thickly, as with mushrooms
- Suffocate
More clues leading to the result PAVE
- Put down macadam
- Put down tar
- Redo the runway
- Finish the road
- Lay down asphalt
- Lay macadam
- Macadamize
- Redo the road
- Setting of precious stones
- Make a lot?