Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - smother
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~ v 1 T always + adv/prep smother sth with/in to cover the whole surface of something with something else (smother sth with/in) (a delicious sponge cake smothered in chocolate | He smothered her with kisses.) 2 smother your anger/irritation to hide your feelings (struggling to smother her jealousy) 3 smother sb with love/kindness etc to express your feelings for someone too strongly, so that your relationship with them cannot develop normally 4 to kill someone by putting something over their face to stop them breathing (One night she took a pillow and smothered him.) 5 to make a fire stop burning by preventing air from reaching it 6 to get rid of anyone who opposes you (They ruthlessly smother all opposition.)
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(smothers, smothering, smothered) 1. 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: V n 2. 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. = suffocate VERB: V n 3. Things that smother something cover it completely. Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them. VERB: V n 4. 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: V n 5. 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. ...smothered giggles. = stifle VERB: V n, V-ed 6. If an activity or process is smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing. Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation... The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process. = stifle VERB: be V-ed, V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration of smorther, from smoren to ~, from Old English smorian to suffocate; akin to Middle Dutch smoren to suffocate Date: 13th century 1. a. thick stifling smoke or smudge b. a state of being stifled or suppressed 2. a dense cloud (as of fog or dust) 3. a confused multitude of things ; welter • ~y adjective II. verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: circa 1520 intransitive verb to be overcome or killed through or as if through lack of air transitive verb 1. to overcome or kill with smoke or fumes 2. a. to kill by depriving of air b. to overcome or discomfit through or as if through lack of air c. to suppress (a fire) by excluding oxygen 3. a. to cause to smolder b. to suppress expression or knowledge of ~ed his rage c. to stop or prevent the growth or activity of ~ a child with too much care; also overwhelm d. to cover thickly ; blanket snow ~ed the trails e. to overcome or vanquish quickly or decisively 4. to cook in a covered pan or pot with little liquid over low heat ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. suffocate; stifle; kill by stopping the breath of or excluding air from. 2 tr. (foll. by with) overwhelm with (kisses, gifts, kindness, etc.) (smothered with affection). 3 tr. (foll. by in, with) cover entirely in or with (chicken smothered in mayonnaise). 4 tr. extinguish or deaden (a fire or flame) by covering it or heaping it with ashes etc. 5 intr. a die of suffocation. b have difficulty breathing. 6 tr. (often foll. by up) suppress or conceal; keep from notice or publicity. 7 tr. US defeat rapidly or utterly. --n. 1 a cloud of dust or smoke. 2 obscurity caused by this. Phrases and idioms smothered mate Chess checkmate in which the king, having no vacant square to move to, is checkmated by a knight. Etymology: ME smorther f. the stem of OE smorian suffocate ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. едкий, удушливый дым 2. плотный, густой туман 3. сильный снегопад; метель 4. тлеющая зола 5. ам. столпотворение, сумбур 6. масса, изобилие; избыток (чего-либо) 7. душить; затруднять дыхание to smother with kisses —- задушить поцелуями we were smothered with soot and ashes cascading from the fireplace —- мы не могли продохнуть от сажи и золы, сыплющихся из камина 8. задыхаться; страдать от удушья to smother with smoke (with dust) —- задыхаться от дыма (от пыли) 9. задушить, удушить 10. задохнуться, умереть от удушья 11. гасить, тушить to smother a fire —- тушить пожар 12. подавлять, сдерживать (также smother up) to smother a yawn —- подавить зевок (зевоту) to smother anger —- сдерживать (скрывать) гнев to smother up a scandal —- замять скандал (ссору to smother a child with too much care —- подавлять (сдерживать развитие) ребенка излишней опекой 13. густо покрывать; окутывать liver smothered in onions —- печенка, щедро посыпанная (сдобренная) луком a grave smothered in flowers —- могила, утопающая в цветах she was smothered in furs —- она была укутана в меха his chest was smothered in medals —- его грудь была увешана медалями 14. заваливать, засыпать to smother in gifts (in compliments) —- осыпать подарками (комплиментами) snow smothered the trails —- снег завалил путь 15. тушить (мясо и т. п.) 16. ам. сл. мариновать, спускать на тормозах...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. v. 1) душить 2) задохнуться 3) тушить 4) подавлять (зевок, гнев) 5) to smother up a scandal - замять скандал 6) густо покрывать 7) окутывать (дымом) 8) cul. тушить - smother in - smother up - smother with 2. noun 1) густое облако дыма или пыли 2) тлеющая зола SMOTHER with see smother in SMOTHER in а) густо покрывать (что-л. или кого-л.) The miners were soon smothered in coal dust as the roof fell. б) засыпать, заваливать; осыпать Smother the fire in earth to make sure it stops burning. She smothered the child in kisses as soon as they met. SMOTHER up скрывать (неблаговидный поступок и т.п.) They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that his death was accidental. ...Англо-русский словарь
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- M.E., from smorthre (n.) "dense, suffocating smoke," from stem of O.E. smorian "to suffocate, choke," possibly connected to smolder. Originally "suffocate with smoke," the sense of "stifle, repress" is first recorded 1579. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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