smother
/smuhth-er/US // ˈsmʌð ər //UK // (ˈsmʌðə) //
窒息,扼杀,封杀,闷死
Related Words
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Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
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- : to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- : to extinguish or deaden by covering so as to exclude air.
- : to cover closely or thickly; envelop: to smother a steak with mushrooms.
- : to suppress or repress: to smother feelings.
- : Cooking. to steam slowly in a heavy, tightly closed vessel with a minimum of liquid: smothered chicken and onions.
v.无主动词 verb
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- : to become stifled or suffocated; be prevented from breathing.
- : to be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
n.名词 noun
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Synonyms & Antonyms
verbextinguish; cover, hide
Forms: smothered, smothering
Examples
You just have to find that yin of decency and locate the gestures and words that smother the yang of fear.
Impatiently I smother the accusing whisper of my conscience, "By the right of revolutionary ethics."
I would not make oath it was so, but my blood was then boiling, and I was trying to smother my passion.
Hamilton saw that without speedy relief his comrade must soon smother.
I choked a little over a big scare that seemed to rush up out of the bed-clothes to smother me.
It endeavoured to smother sleepers like the Scandinavian hag Mara, and similarly deprived them of power to move.
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