smothered

Adjective

• completely covered
  • bonnets smothered with flowers
    
  • smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy
    

• held in check with difficulty
  • a smothered cough
    
  • a stifled yawn
    
  • a strangled scream
    
  • suppressed laughter
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stifled , strangled , suppressed