mùch

From Old Irish múchaid (“covers over, suffocates, quenches, extinguishes”), from múch (“smoke, stifling vapour”).

mùch (past mhùch, future mùchaidh, verbal noun mùchadh, past participle mùchte)

1. extinguish (fire)
2. choke, strangle, suffocate, smother
3. quell, put down, suppress

• (choke): tachd
• (quell): ceannsaich, srian

• gille-mùchain (“chimney sweep”)