smother 的 3 个定义
- 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.
- (5)
- to become stifled or suffocated; be prevented from breathing.
- to be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- dense, stifling smoke.
- a smoking or smoldering state, as of burning matter.
- dust, fog, spray, etc., in a dense or enveloping cloud.
- an overspreading profusion of anything: a smother of papers.
smother 近义词
extinguish; cover, hide
更多smother例句
- 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.