smother
smother 英 [ˈsmʌðə(r)] 美 [ˈsmʌðɚ]
v. 使窒息；抑制；闷死
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- To smother is to overwhelm or suffocate. If you've ever had a boyfriend or girlfriend who calls you twenty five times an hour to check up on you, then you know what it means to be smothered by someone.
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- v. 使窒息；抑制；闷死
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1. He smothered the baby with a pillow.
他用枕头把婴儿闷死了。
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2. a rich dessert smothered in cream
涂了厚厚一层奶油的多脂甜点
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3. to smother a yawn
把哈欠忍了回去
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4. The voices of the opposition were effectively smothered.
反对党的声音被有效地压制了下去。
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5. Her husband was very loving, but she felt smothered.
丈夫对她百般宠爱，但这让她觉得不自在。
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6. He tried to smother the flames with a blanket.
他试图用毯子把火扑灭。
- smother (v.) c. 1200, "to suffocate with smoke," from smother (n.), earlier smorthre "dense, suffocating smoke" (late 12c.), from stem of Old English smorian "to suffocate, choke, strangle, stifle," cognate with Middle Dutch smoren, German schmoren; possibly connected to smolder. Meaning "to kill by suffocation in any manner" is from 1540s; sense of "to extinguish a fire" is from 1590s. Sense of "stifle, repress" is first recorded 1570s; meaning "to cover thickly (with some substance)" is from 1590s. Related: Smothered; smothering.
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