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- Dictionarysmothered/ˈsmʌðəd/
adjective
- 1. (of food) cooked in a covered container: US "smothered fried chicken"
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to kill something by covering it and preventing it from receiving the substances and conditions it needs for life: Snow soon smothered the last of the blooms. figurative I tried desperately to smother a sneeze (= I tried not to sneeze) during his speech. to stop a fire from burning by covering it with something that prevents air from reaching it:
1. a. : to kill by depriving of air. b. : to suppress (a fire) by excluding oxygen. c. : to overcome or discomfit through or as if through lack of air. 2. a. : to suppress expression or knowledge of. smothered his rage. b. : to stop or prevent the growth or activity of. smother a child with too much care. also : overwhelm. c.
1. a. To suffocate. b. To be extinguished. 2. To be concealed or suppressed. 3. To be surfeited with an emotion. n. Something, such as a dense cloud of smoke or dust, that smothers or tends to smother. [Middle English smotheren, from smorther, dense smoke; see smolder .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing. to extinguish or deaden (fire, coals, etc.) by covering so as to exclude air. to cover closely or thickly; envelop: to smother a steak with mushrooms. to suppress or repress: to smother feelings.
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 More Synonyms of smother. 3. verb. Things that smother something cover it completely.
verb. /ˈsmʌðə (r)/ /ˈsmʌðər/ Verb Forms. smother somebody (with something) to kill somebody by covering their face so that they cannot breathe synonym suffocate. He smothered the baby with a pillow. to be smothered to death. Definitions on the go.
adjective. completely covered. “bonnets smothered with flowers”. “ smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy”. synonyms: covered. overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form.
