smother – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: disorderliness,
disorder,
fume,
smoke,
cover,
kill,
conquer,
stamp down,
subdue,
curb,
inhibit,
suppress,
spread over,
snuff out,
extinguish
smother
v.
suffocate, kill by depriving of oxygen; extinguish, put out by covering (of a fire); completely cover; suppress, stifle; overwhelm
n.
something which smothers, something which suffocates, something which deprives of oxygen (i.e. thick smoke, cloud of dust, etc.); something which obscures or hides
smother
Noun
1. a confused multitude of things
(synonym) clutter, jumble, muddle, mare's nest, welter
(hypernym) disorderliness, disorder
(hyponym) rummage
2. a stifling cloud of smoke
(hypernym) smoke, fume
Verb
1. envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
(synonym) surround
(hypernym) cover
2. 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"
(synonym) asphyxiate, suffocate
(hypernym) kill
(entail) cover
(verb-group) suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
3. conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
(synonym) stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
(hypernym) suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
(derivation) stifler, smotherer
4. form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake"
(hypernym) cover, spread over
5. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
(synonym) put out
(hypernym) snuff out, extinguish
(entail) cover
smother
n.
udusit; zahltit; zahrnout; potlačit; uhasit
smother
Czas.
dusić; pokrywać; tłumić
Smother
(v. t.)
To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
(v. t.)
To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.
(v. t.)
Stifling smoke; thick dust.
(v. t.)
Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
(v. t.)
A state of suppression.
(v. i.)
To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
(v. i.)
To be suffocated or stifled.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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