Vi fant 21 definisjoner av smother på engelsk.
Noun |
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| smother - a stifling cloud of smoke | ||
| smother - a confused multitude of things | ||
| clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter | ||
| disorder, disorderliness a disturbance of the peace or of public order | ||
Verb |
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| smother - deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" | ||
| asphyxiate, suffocate | ||
| cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
| kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" | ||
| smother - conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" | ||
| stifle, strangle, muffle, repress | ||
| stamp down, conquer, curb, inhibit, suppress, subdue overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country" | ||
| smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires" | ||
| put out | ||
| snuff out, extinguish put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" | ||
| smother - envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" | ||
| surround | ||
| cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
| smother - form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake" | ||
| spread over, cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
Substantiv |
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| smother - That which smothers or appears to smother, in any sense. | ||
| smother - The state of being stifled; suppression. | ||
| smother - The act of smothering a kick see above. | ||
Verb |
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| smother - To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of. | ||
| smother - To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes. | ||
| smother - To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle; cover up; conceal; hide: as, the committee's report was smothered. | ||
| smother - In cookery: to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions. | ||
| smother - To daub or smear. | ||
| smother - To be suffocated. | ||
| smother - To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like. | ||
| smother - Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder. | ||
| smother - Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed. | ||
| smother - To get in the way of a kick of the ball. | ||
| smother - 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. |