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smothered

/smuhth-er/US // ˈsmʌð ər //UK // (ˈsmʌðə) //

闷死了,被闷死,闷闷不乐,窒息

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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
  1. 1
    • : to become stifled or suffocated; be prevented from breathing.
    • : to be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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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.