smother
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
He smothered her by pressing his hand over her mouth.
Đồng nghĩa: suffocate, choke, stifle
- 2.
(transitive)To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
to smother a fire with ashes
- 3.
(transitive)To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
The committee's report was smothered.
Đồng nghĩa: stifle, cover up, conceal, hide
- 4.
(transitive)(transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
beefsteak smothered with onions
- 5.
(transitive)To daub or smear.
- 6.
(intransitive)To be suffocated.
She is smothered by the rope.
Đồng nghĩa: choke, stifle
- 7.
(intransitive)To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- 8.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- 9.
(figuratively, intransitive)to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- 10.
(soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- 11.
(Australian rules football) 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.
- 12.
(boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
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From Middle English smothren, smortheren, alteration (due to smother, smorther (a suffocating vapour, dense smoke)) of Middle English smoren (to smother), from Old English smorian (to smother, suffocate, choke), from *smorōn, from Proto-Germanic *smurōną (to suffocate, strangle), probably related to *smallijan (to burn) or smoca.