transcription, транскрипция: [ smʌðə(r) ]
( 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