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 LA Times in 2008.
Cover thickly, as with onions crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMOTHER | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cover thickly, as with onions
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- slather
- smothered
- smothering
- smother
- strew
- carpet
- coat
- plaster
- plastered
- slab
- beplaster
- soubise
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
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