| 单词 | smother |
| 释义 | smother (smʌðəʳ ) Word forms: smothers , smothering , smothered 1. verb If you smother a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out. The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames. [VERB noun] 2. verb To smother someone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe. A father was secretly filmed as he tried to smother his six-week-old son in hospital. [VERB noun] Synonyms: suffocate, choke, strangle, stifle 3. verb Things that smother something cover it completely. Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them. [VERB noun] smothered adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE, usu ADJ in/with n] ...a hundred-year-old red-bricked house almost smothered in ivy. Make sure that your meal won't be smothered with white sauce. 4. verb If you smother someone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much. She loved her own children, almost smothering them with love. [VERB noun] 5. verb If you smother an emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity. [VERB noun] ...smothered giggles. [VERB-ed] 6. verb If an activity or process is smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing. Intellectual life in France was smothered by the Occupation. [be VERB-ed] The wrong structure aborts results and smothers even the best-directed efforts. [VERB noun] Translations: Chinese: 把…闷熄 火 Japanese: 消す |
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