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单词 smothering
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smotheringn.

/ˈsmʌðərɪŋ/
Etymology: < smother v.
a. The action of the verb, in various senses.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [noun]
coverture1393
laina1400
coveringc1400
palliation?c1425
lainingc1440
lonea1450
hudder-mudder1461
hugger-mugger1529
concealment1565
celation1567
hugger1576
burial1596
smothering1602
suppression1651
disguisal1652
hugger-mug1654
latitancy1701
cover-up1927
wraps1939
the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > death from suffocation or choking > of animals
overlayingc1384
smother1930
smothering1950
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by eating habits
turnip-sheep1844
trek sheep1912
smothering1950
heft1960
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 83 If any Judge..shall partially demeane himself in the smothering of that fault.
1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 241 All vain boasting of the gifts of God..is a kind of smothering of the receipt.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 382 Any attempt to shut this out..is but a smothering of the inquiry.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 5/2 It is undesirable to have yards on a very steep slope, as the danger of smothering, particularly with lambs in a large yard, is greatly increased.
1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) iv. 47 The ‘sheepo’ must keep an eye on them for smothering, the first sign of which is sheep jumping up in the pen.
b. attributive, as smothering-hole, smothering-pan, smothering-process.
ΚΠ
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woordem-boeck Een demp-kuyl, a smothering-hole.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woordem-boeck Een Smoor-panne, a Smoothering-pan.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 376 The smothering process..cannot be so perfectly accomplished.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

smotheringadj.

/ˈsmʌðərɪŋ/
Etymology: < smother v. + -ing suffix2.
That smothers, in various senses.
1.
a. Of smoke, etc.: Stifling, suffocating.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [adjective] > smothering or smothered
smotheringa1200
smothery1603
smoring1642
asphyxiant1854
asphyxiating1859
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [adjective] > relating to smoke > dense or suffocating
smotheringa1200
foggy1584
smouldery1590
smothery1603
smoring1642
a1200 St. Marher. 9 In his ihurnd heauet..þreaste smeorðrinde smoke ut, smeeche forcuðest.
1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 54 Ther rose smotheryng smoke, and brese therinne.
1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 54 The smorthering smoke is ȝour dymme doctrine.
c1475 Partenay 3303 The smoky fume smorthering so was, The Abbay it toke.
1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 94 v A second hell For smothryng smoke, for shot and fiery flame.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 340 The whirling ship is..all in clouds of smoth'ring sulphur lost.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous x, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 235 Free from the smothering atmosphere which had before oppressed her like that of a charnel-house.
1863 Princess Alice Mem. (1884) 57 We went..to see the different machines at work, in a crowd close round us and a smothering heat.
b. Smouldering; burning slowly.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] > burning without flame
smothering1563
punky1803
smouldering1832
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1048/1 Greene woode, and other smotheryng rather then burnyng fewel.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 167 Who stird abroad the glowing coles, that lay In smothering ashes.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. xiv. 118 What fenny trash maintaines the smooth'ring fires Of his desires!
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace x. 229 Let not your troubles lye like a secret smothering fire, always in your own breasts.
2. Covering (or suppressing) completely and overwhelmingly. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > overwhelmingly
whelmingc1440
smothering1590
obrute1628
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. C3 The spring is hindred by your smoothering host.
a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 257 The innocent bloud spilt in that smotheringe tyme of tiranie.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 370 If ground can be covered with such smothering crops of the fallow kind.
1851 R. C. Trench Poems (1862) 19 As from beneath the smothering earth The seed strives upward to a birth.
1899 J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 113 Fire..covered with green leaves; unable to escape from its smothering burden.
3. Characterized by suffocation from smoke, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > of breath: short > choking or asphyxiation
forstived13..
choked1499
stiflinga1560
smouldery1590
stiving1598
suffocative1605
suffocatinga1616
strangulating1822
gulpy1860
smothering1864
gulping1865
1864 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. The Tennessee..surrendered,..[with] her crew in an exhausted and smothering condition.

Derivatives

ˈsmotheringly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adverb] > so as to cover > so as to cover completely > overwhelmingly
smotheringly1778
1778 Exmoor Gloss. Smuggle, to hug violently, smotheringly.
1857 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 71 Two little arms tight round her neck, smotheringly expressing a wealth of love.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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