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使喘不过气,使窒息,闷熄,忍住,抑制,覆盖窒息,被抑制浓烟

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Smother \Smoth"er\, n.
   That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as
   smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude of
   things.

         Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the
         evening and the smoke and smother of the storm. --The
                                                  Century.

Smother \Smoth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smothered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Smothering}.] [OE. smotheren; akin to E. smoor. See
   {Smoor}.]
   1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the
      air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to
      prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.

   2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air
      by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like;
      as, to smother a fire.

   3. Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public
      view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's
      displeasure.

Smother \Smoth"er\, v. i.
   1. To be suffocated or stifled.

   2. To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.

Smother \Smoth"er\, n. [OE. smorther. See {Smother}, v. t.]
   1. Stifling smoke; thick dust. --Shak.

   2. A state of suppression. [Obs.]

            Not to keep their suspicions in smother. --Bacon.

   {Smother fly} (Zo["o]l.), an aphid.

资料来源 : WordNet®

smother
     n 1: a confused multitude of things [syn: {clutter}, {jumble}, {muddle},
           {mare's nest}, {welter}]
     2: a stifling cloud of smoke
     v 1: envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" [syn: {surround}]
     2: deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello
        smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated
        herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on
        the floor" [syn: {asphyxiate}, {suffocate}]
     3: conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger";
        "strangle a yawn" [syn: {stifle}, {strangle}, {muffle}, {repress}]
     4: form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered
        the cake"
     5: deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother
        fires" [syn: {put out}]