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smothered
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smother
v.
suffocate, kill by depriving of oxygen; extinguish, put out by covering (of a fire); completely cover; suppress, stifle; overwhelm
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smothered
Adjective
1. held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
(synonym) stifled, strangled, suppressed
(similar) inhibited
2. completely covered; "bonnets smothered with flowers"; "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy"
(similar) covered
smother
Noun
1. a confused multitude of things
(synonym) clutter, jumble, muddle, mare's nest, welter
(hypernym) disorderliness, disorder
(hyponym) rummage
2. a stifling cloud of smoke
(hypernym) smoke, fume
Verb
1. envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
(synonym) surround
(hypernym) cover
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"
(synonym) asphyxiate, suffocate
(hypernym) kill
(entail) cover
(verb-group) suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
3. conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
(synonym) stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
(hypernym) suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
(derivation) stifler, smotherer
4. form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake"
(hypernym) cover, spread over
5. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
(synonym) put out
(hypernym) snuff out, extinguish
(entail) cover
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smother
Czas.
dusić; pokrywać; tłumić
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Smothered
(imp. & p. p.)
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smothered
Synonyms and related words:
arcane, bated, cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, crushed, cryptic, damped, dampened, dark, dead, deadened, dull, dulled, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, latent, muffled, muted, mysterious, occult, quashed, quelled, repressed, restricted, secret, smashed, softened, sordo, squashed, squelched, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, top secret, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable
arcane, bated, cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, crushed, cryptic, damped, dampened, dark, dead, deadened, dull, dulled, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, latent, muffled, muted, mysterious, occult, quashed, quelled, repressed, restricted, secret, smashed, softened, sordo, squashed, squelched, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, top secret, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
