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smothery

/smuhth-uh-ree/US // ˈsmʌð ə ri //

闷闷不乐,温馨提示,熏陶,熏蒸

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : stifling; close: a smothery atmosphere.

Examples

  • The odor of the ointment was sickeningly sweet, and the mask gave her a hot smothery feeling.

  • And I laughed again till I thought there must be some elf scrambling among the rafters of that smothery ceiling.

  • "Well I should think the inside of a carpet-bag would be pretty smothery," observed Mollie.

  • In a moment they were mere fantastic shadows galloping up the hill through the smothery gloom.

  • No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses.