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smother

C1 verb

smother /ˈsməðər/ nghĩa là làm ngạt thở, bóp nghẹt

Các nghĩa

  1. làm ngạt thở, bóp nghẹt

    To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.

    transitive

    He smothered her by pressing his hand over her mouth.

  2. dập tắt, làm tắt ngấm

    To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.

    transitive

    to smother a fire with ashes

  3. đàn áp, dập tắt

    To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish

    transitive

    The committee's report was smothered.

  4. hầm, om

    To cook in a close dish.

    transitive

    beefsteak smothered with onions

  5. bôi, trát

    To daub or smear.

    transitive

    And I keep quite a lot of it around, especially chocolate-covered almonds and Trader Joes minipretzels smothered in dark chocolate.

  6. bị ngạt thở

    To be suffocated.

    intransitive

    She is smothered by the rope.

+ 2 nghĩa khác

  1. thở khó nhọc

    To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.

    intransitive

  2. cháy âm ỉ

    to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.

    intransitive

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