smother

noun

1. a stifling cloud of smoke

2. a confused multitude of things

Synonym: clutterjumblemuddlefuddlemare's nestwelter

verb

1. conceal or hide

e.g. smother a yawn
muffle one's anger
strangle a yawn

Synonym: stiflestranglemufflerepress

2. envelop completely

e.g. smother the meat in gravy

Synonym: surround

3. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion

e.g. smother fires

Synonym: put out

4. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing

e.g. Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow
The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor

Synonym: asphyxiatesuffocate

5. form an impenetrable cover over

e.g. the butter cream smothered the cake

1. 将(火)闷熄
If you smother a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.

e.g. The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames.
女孩的父母试图扑灭大火的时候也被烧伤了。

2. 使…透不过气来;使…窒息;闷死
To smother someone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe.

e.g. A father was secretly filmed as he tried to smother his six-week-old son in hospital.
一位父亲在医院里企图捂死自己 6 周大的儿子的情景被秘密地拍了下来。

3. 盖满;完全覆盖
Things that smother something cover it completely.

smother

e.g. Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.
一旦灌木丛开始遮住这些小苗，我们就得把它们移走。

4. 宠爱;溺爱
If you smother someone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.

e.g. She loved her own children, almost smothering them with love.
她十分疼爱自己的孩子，几乎到了溺爱的程度。
e.g. ...a smothering, overprotective mother.
对孩子过分溺爱、过度保护的母亲

5. 压抑，控制(感情或反应)
If you smother an emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it.

e.g. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。
e.g. ...smothered giggles.
忍住的咯咯笑

6. 压制，钳制，扼杀，镇压 (某种活动或过程)
If an activity or process is smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.

e.g. Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation...
在被占领期间法国思想界受到了压制。
e.g. The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process.
波兰和匈牙利的债务正开始扼杀改革的进程。

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2. 使窒息：smooth-bore 滑膛武器 | smother 使窒息 | smothering action 窒息作用

3. smother的反义词

3. 浓烟：smoothness 平滑度 | smother 浓烟 | smother 窒息