smother的意思

基本释义

• v 使窒息，使闷死；闷住；抑制；忍住

  to kill someone by putting something over their face to stop them breathing

例句

1. A teenage mother was accused of smothering her 3-month-old daughter.

   一个少女妈妈被指控闷死自己三个月大的女儿。

2. Don't put that cloth over the baby's face,you'll smother him!

   不要把布盖在那个婴儿脸上，会使他窒息的！

3. I just managed to smother a yawn.

   我刚设法忍住了一个呵欠。1

4. In autumn the grass is smothered with leaves.

   秋天草地上盖满了枯叶。

5. The fire is smothered by ashes.

   火被灰闷熄了。

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英英释义

noun 1. a stifling cloud of smoke 2. a confused multitude of things Synonym: clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare, nestwelter verb 1. conceal or hide e.g. smother a yawn muffle one's anger strangle a yawn Synonym: stifle, strangle, muffler 2. envelop completely e.g. smother the meat in gravy Synonym: surround 3. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion e.g. smother fires Synonym: put out 4. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing e.g. Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor Synonym: asphyxiatesuffocate 5. form an impenetrable cover over e.g. the butter cream smothered the cake

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